Scene-object semantic incongruity across stages of processing: From detection to identification and episodic encoding
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Frontiers Media
Materia
semantic congruity detection identification
Fecha
2023-02-28Referencia bibliográfica
Ortiz-Tudela J, Jiménez L and Lupiáñez J (2023) Scene-object semantic incongruity across stages of processing: From detection to identification and episodic encoding. Front. Cognit. 2:1125145. doi: 10.3389/fcogn.2023.1125145
Patrocinador
Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad with research grant PSI2017-84926-P; Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad with research grant PID2020-114790GBI00; Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad with research grant PID-2020-116942GB-100; Goethe Research Academy for Early Career Researchers; Junta de Andalucía - Consejería de Universidad, Investigación e Innovación (P21_00148).Resumen
Visual processes are assumed to be affected by scene-object semantics
throughout the stream of processing, from the earliest processes of conscious
object detection to the later stages of object identification andmemory encoding.
However, very few studies have jointly explored these processes in a unified
setting. In this study, we build upon a change detection task to assess the influence
of semantic congruity between scenes and objects across three processing
stages, as indexed throughmeasures of conscious detection, object identification,
and delayed recognition. Across four experiments, we show that semantically
incongruent targets are easier to detect than their congruent counterparts, but
that the latter are better identified and recognized in a surprise memory test.
In addition, we used eye-tracking measures, in conjunction with these three
behavioral indexes, to further understand the locus of the advantage observed in
each case. The results indicate that (i) competition with other congruent objects
modulates the effects of congruity on target detection, but it does not affect
identification nor recognition memory, (ii) the detection cost of scene-congruent
targets is mediated by earlier fixations on incongruent targets, (iii) neither fixation
times, dwell times, nor pupil dilatation are related to the effects obtained in
identification and recognition; and (iv) even though congruent targets are both
better identified and remembered, the recognition benefit does not depend on
the identification demands. The transversal approach taken in this study represents
a challenging but exciting perspective that holds the potential to build bridges
over the seemingly different but related fields of conscious detection, semantic
identification, and episodic memory.