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Visual implicit learning and semantic categories

The present experiment investigated whether participants can learn association between the background colour of the screen and the semantic categorical properties of the word displayed on the screen while solving an unrelated, attention demanding task. Participants were presented with nouns from seven semantic categories appearing one by one on the screen, in random order. Each semantic category was associated with a background colour. Participants were asked to check if the word displayed on the screen was presented among the pictures on the paper and to mark it, if it were. Each word was displayed for only 5 seconds and then replaced by another one. After solving the task, participants were asked to answer the questions in the questionnaire, aimed to determine whether they discovered the regularity in the relationship between background colours and semantic categories. As a final part of the experiment, participants were presented with words from the aforementioned seven semantic categories and asked to determine whether each word’s background colour was correctly assigned. Apart from words already used in the first part of the experiment, new words belonging to the same semantic categories were presented as well.

: implicit learning; semantic categories; visual stimuli; color associations; learning associations

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