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Speeded naming or naming speed? The automatic effect of object speed on performance
Moshe Shay Ben-Haim1, Eran Chajut1, Ran R Hassin2
1School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University.
Journal of Experimental Psychology. General
|January 7, 2015
Summary
Object speed influences how quickly people name objects, even when speed is irrelevant to the task. This suggests mental representations of objects include their typical speeds, affecting cognitive processing.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Psycholinguistics
- Human Perception
Background:
- Cognitive representations of everyday objects may implicitly include attributes like speed.
- The influence of non-task-relevant object attributes on cognitive tasks is not fully understood.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate whether object speed, an irrelevant attribute, affects object naming and word reading.
- To test the hypothesis that mental representations incorporate object speed, influencing behavioral tasks.
Main Methods:
- Conducted seven studies using visual stimuli (pictures and words) of objects.
- Participants were tasked with naming depicted objects and reading aloud object names.
- Object speed was systematically varied as a potential influencing factor.
Main Results:
- Objects depicted as moving at high speeds were named significantly faster than low-speed objects.
- This effect occurred even though object speed was irrelevant to the naming and reading tasks.
- Results support the prediction that object speed influences cognitive processing related to object recognition.
Conclusions:
- Mental representations of objects appear to include dynamic attributes like speed.
- These implicit attributes can systematically influence cognitive behaviors, such as object naming.
- The findings highlight the pervasive influence of object properties on cognitive tasks.
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