@article {Bramão:2012:1350-6285:1164,
title = "Electrophysiological evidence for colour effects on the naming of colour diagnostic and noncolour diagnostic objects",
journal = "Visual Cognition",
parent_itemid = "infobike://routledg/pvis",
publishercode ="routledg",
year = "2012",
volume = "20",
number = "10",
publication date ="2012-12-01T00:00:00",
pages = "1164-1185",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "1350-6285",
eissn = "1464-0716",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/pvis/2012/00000020/00000010/art00004",
doi = "doi:10.1080/13506285.2012.739215",
keyword = "Colour information, Semantic processing, Perceptual processing, Object naming, Colour diagnosticity",
author = "Bram{\~a}o, In{\^e}s and Francisco, Ana and In{\’a}cio, Filomena and Fa{\’ı}sca, Lu{\’ı}s and Reis, Alexandra and Petersson, Karl Magnus",
abstract = "In this study, we investigated the level of visual processing at which surface colour information improves the naming of colour diagnostic and noncolour diagnostic objects. Continuous electroencephalograms were recorded while participants performed a visual object naming task in which
coloured and black-and-white versions of both types of objects were presented. The black-and-white and the colour presentations were compared in two groups of event-related potentials (ERPs): (1) The P1 and N1 components, indexing early visual processing; and (2) the N300 and N400 components,
which index late visual processing. A colour effect was observed in the P1 and N1 components, for both colour and noncolour diagnostic objects. In addition, for colour diagnostic objects, a colour effect was observed in the N400 component. These results suggest that colour information is important
for the naming of colour and noncolour diagnostic objects at different levels of visual processing. It thus appears that the visual system uses colour information, during naming of both object types, at early visual stages; however, for the colour diagnostic objects naming, colour information
is also recruited during the late visual processing stages.",
}