For investigating the roles of semantic size and number of stimuli in asymmetric visual search,we adopted the different semantic sizes of Chinese characters and instructed the participants to search tar-get stimulus in two types of stimulus numbers:6 and 12.Results showed that:(1)When the number of stimuli was 6,the search efficiency of the target with the small semantic size was higher than that of the target with the large semantic size;(2)When the number of stimuli was 12,the search efficiency of the target with the larger semantic size was higher than that of the target with smaller semantic size;(3)When the semantic size of the interferential stimuli and the target stimuli were the same,the search effi-ciency of the interferential stimuli with more number and large semantic size was slower.This study con-firmed the interaction of spatial and numerical representations in asymmetric visual search,which supported embodied cognition theory,and extended the feature integration theory and guided search model.
关键词
语义大小/刺激数量/非对称性视觉搜索
Key words
semantic size/the number of stimuli/asymmetric visual search