Conceptual relation preference: A matter of strategy or one of salience?
Abstract
In order to determine whether preference in object matching tasks measures participants' strategy or tells us something about the salience of relations between corresponding concepts, we conducted three experiments. In Experiment 1 and Experiment 2, we approached this question by measuring the ease with which adult participants process different relations when they are under strategic instruction. When asked to group objects based on thematic or taxonomic relatedness, participants were slower (Experiment 2) and tended to make more errors (Experiment 1-2) when they had to find a taxonomically related pair than when they searched for a thematically related one. In Experiment 3, participants performed a standard matching task and their eye-movements were monitored throughout. In addition to the strong thematic preference in participants' choices, we measured longer fixations to thematically related objects than taxonomic competitors. Even though thematic and taxonomic information appear t...o compete for selection in early phases of observation, thematic conceptual relations appear to be more salient and preferred, independently of instruction.
Keywords:
Thematic relations / Thematic preference / Taxonomic relations / Matching-to-sample task / Eye-trackingSource:
Acta Psychologica, 2020, 204Publisher:
- Elsevier, Amsterdam
Funding / projects:
- Fundamental cognitive processes and functions (RS-179033)
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103018
ISSN: 0001-6918
PubMed: 32078978
WoS: 000521113600007
Scopus: 2-s2.0-85079369661
Institution/Community
Psihologija / PsychologyTY - JOUR AU - Savić, Olivera AU - Thierry, Guillaume AU - Ković, Vanja PY - 2020 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/3184 AB - In order to determine whether preference in object matching tasks measures participants' strategy or tells us something about the salience of relations between corresponding concepts, we conducted three experiments. In Experiment 1 and Experiment 2, we approached this question by measuring the ease with which adult participants process different relations when they are under strategic instruction. When asked to group objects based on thematic or taxonomic relatedness, participants were slower (Experiment 2) and tended to make more errors (Experiment 1-2) when they had to find a taxonomically related pair than when they searched for a thematically related one. In Experiment 3, participants performed a standard matching task and their eye-movements were monitored throughout. In addition to the strong thematic preference in participants' choices, we measured longer fixations to thematically related objects than taxonomic competitors. Even though thematic and taxonomic information appear to compete for selection in early phases of observation, thematic conceptual relations appear to be more salient and preferred, independently of instruction. PB - Elsevier, Amsterdam T2 - Acta Psychologica T1 - Conceptual relation preference: A matter of strategy or one of salience? VL - 204 DO - 10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103018 ER -
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Savić, O., Thierry, G.,& Ković, V.. (2020). Conceptual relation preference: A matter of strategy or one of salience?. in Acta Psychologica Elsevier, Amsterdam., 204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103018
Savić O, Thierry G, Ković V. Conceptual relation preference: A matter of strategy or one of salience?. in Acta Psychologica. 2020;204. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103018 .
Savić, Olivera, Thierry, Guillaume, Ković, Vanja, "Conceptual relation preference: A matter of strategy or one of salience?" in Acta Psychologica, 204 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103018 . .