[en] Some familiar objects are associated with specific colors, e.g., rubber ducks with yellow. Whether and at what stage neural responses occur to these color associations remain open questions. We recorded frequency-tagged electroencephalogram (EEG) responses to periodic presentations of yellow-associated objects, shown among sequences of non-periodic blue-, red-, and green- associated objects. Both color and grayscale versions of the objects elicited yellow-specific responses, indicating an automatic activation of color knowledge from object shape. Follow-up experiments replicated these effects with green-specific responses, and demonstrated modulated responses for incongruent color/object associations. Importantly, the onset of color-specific responses was as early to grayscale as actually colored stimuli (before 100 ms), the latter additionally eliciting a conventional later response (approximately 140-230 ms) to actual stimulus color. This suggests that the neural representation of familiar objects includes both diagnostic shape and color properties, such that shape can elicit associated color-specific responses before actual color-specific responses occur.
Disciplines :
Neurosciences & behavior
Author, co-author :
RETTER, Talia ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) ; University of Nevada, Reno
Gao, Yi; University of Nevada, Reno
Jiang, Fang; University of Nevada, Reno
Rossion, Bruno; Université de Lorraine
Webster, Michael; University of Nevada, Reno
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Automatic, early color-specific neural responses to object color knowledge
Publication date :
2023
Journal title :
Brain Topography
ISSN :
0896-0267
eISSN :
1573-6792
Publisher :
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, United States - New York
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