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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Linguistics
  • Neuroscience

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  • Categorical perception (CP) of color suggests language influences visual perception.
  • Previous research found CP effects in dynamic paradigms like multiple object tracking (MOT).
  • The role of online language use in MOT-based CP remains debated.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if CP effects in MOT depend on the online use of language.
  • To determine if verbal interference can disrupt CP in a dynamic visual task.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed multiple object tracking (MOT) tasks.
  • Verbal interference was introduced using either color words or digits.
  • Performance was assessed based on the presence and magnitude of CP effects.

Main Results:

  • CP effects were reduced when participants memorized color words during tracking (Experiment 2).
  • CP effects were not significantly reduced when participants memorized digits (Experiment 1).
  • The difficulty of the verbal interference task impacted its ability to disrupt CP.

Conclusions:

  • CP effects observed in MOT tasks are partly dependent on the online use of language.
  • Language's influence on visual perception can be modulated by the nature and difficulty of concurrent verbal tasks.