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Coherence across consciousness levels: Symmetric visual displays spare working memory resources.
Dumitru, Magdalena
2015In Consciousness and Cognition, 38, p. 139-49
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Keywords :
Adult; Color Perception/physiology; Consciousness/physiology; Humans; Judgment/physiology; Memory, Short-Term/physiology; Pattern Recognition, Visual/physiology; Space Perception/physiology; Young Adult; Analogy; Coherence; Consciousness; Reasoning; Symmetry; Working memory
Abstract :
[en] Two studies demonstrate that the need for coherence could nudge individuals to use structural similarities between binary visual displays and two concurrent cognitive tasks to unduly solve the latter in similar fashion. In an overt truth-judgement task, participants decided whether symmetric colourful displays matched conjunction or disjunction descriptions (e.g., "the black and/or the orange"). In the simultaneous covert categorisation task, they decided whether a colour name (e.g., "black") described a two-colour object or half of a single-colour object. Two response patterns emerged as follows. Participants either acknowledged or rejected matches between disjunction descriptions and two visual stimuli and, similarly, either acknowledged or rejected matches between single colour names and two-colour objects or between single colour names and half of single-colour objects. These findings confirm the coherence hypothesis, highlight the role of coherence in preserving working-memory resources, and demonstrate an interaction between high-level and low-level consciousness.
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Dumitru, Magdalena ;  Université de Liège > Département de Psychologie > Psychopathologie cognitive
Language :
English
Title :
Coherence across consciousness levels: Symmetric visual displays spare working memory resources.
Publication date :
2015
Journal title :
Consciousness and Cognition
ISSN :
1053-8100
eISSN :
1090-2376
Publisher :
Elsevier, Atlanta, United States - California
Volume :
38
Pages :
139-49
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
European Projects :
FP7 - 610986 - IRIS - IRIS: Towards Natural Interaction and Communication
Funders :
CE - Commission Européenne [BE]
Commentary :
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