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Attentional Factors in Conceptual Congruency
Author(s) -
Santiago Julio,
Ouellet Marc,
Román Antonio,
Valenzuela Javier
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.498
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1551-6709
pISSN - 0364-0213
DOI - 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2012.01240.x
Subject(s) - dimension (graph theory) , cognitive psychology , psychology , task (project management) , space (punctuation) , social psychology , computer science , mathematics , pure mathematics , economics , management , operating system
Conceptual congruency effects are biases induced by an irrelevant conceptual dimension of a task (e.g., location in vertical space) on the processing of another, relevant dimension (e.g., judging words’ emotional evaluation). Such effects are a central empirical pillar for recent views about how the mind/brain represents concepts. In the present paper, we show how attentional cueing (both exogenous and endogenous) to each conceptual dimension succeeds in modifying both the manifestation and the symmetry of the effect. The theoretical implications of this finding are discussed.