Categorical perception of color is lateralized to the right hemisphere in infants, but to the left hemisphere in adults. Franklin, A., Drivonikou, G. V., Bevis, L., Davies, I. R L, Kay, P., & Regier, T. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 105(9):3221-5, 2008. doi abstract bibtex Both adults and infants are faster at discriminating between two colors from different categories than two colors from the same category, even when between- and within-category chromatic separation sizes are equated. For adults, this categorical perception (CP) is lateralized; the category effect is stronger for the right visual field (RVF)-left hemisphere (LH) than the left visual field (LVF)-right hemisphere (RH). Converging evidence suggests that the LH bias in color CP in adults is caused by the influence of lexical color codes in the LH. The current study investigates whether prelinguistic color CP is also lateralized to the LH by testing 4- to 6-month-old infants. A colored target was shown on a differently colored background, and time to initiate an eye movement to the target was measured. Target background pairs were either from the same or different categories, but with equal target-background chromatic separations. Infants were faster at initiating an eye movement to targets on different-category than same-category backgrounds, but only for targets in the LVF-RH. In contrast, adults showed a greater category effect when targets were presented to the RVF-LH. These results suggest that whereas color CP is stronger in the LH than RH in adults, prelinguistic CP in infants is lateralized to the RH. The findings suggest that language-driven CP in adults may not build on prelinguistic CP, but that language instead imposes its categories on a LH that is not categorically prepartitioned.
@Article{Franklin2008,
author = {A. Franklin and G. V. Drivonikou and L. Bevis and I. R L Davies and P. Kay and T. Regier},
journal = {Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A},
title = {Categorical perception of color is lateralized to the right hemisphere in infants, but to the left hemisphere in adults.},
year = {2008},
number = {9},
pages = {3221-5},
volume = {105},
abstract = {Both adults and infants are faster at discriminating between two colors
from different categories than two colors from the same category,
even when between- and within-category chromatic separation sizes
are equated. For adults, this categorical perception (CP) is lateralized;
the category effect is stronger for the right visual field (RVF)-left
hemisphere (LH) than the left visual field (LVF)-right hemisphere
(RH). Converging evidence suggests that the LH bias in color CP in
adults is caused by the influence of lexical color codes in the LH.
The current study investigates whether prelinguistic color CP is
also lateralized to the LH by testing 4- to 6-month-old infants.
A colored target was shown on a differently colored background, and
time to initiate an eye movement to the target was measured. Target
background pairs were either from the same or different categories,
but with equal target-background chromatic separations. Infants were
faster at initiating an eye movement to targets on different-category
than same-category backgrounds, but only for targets in the LVF-RH.
In contrast, adults showed a greater category effect when targets
were presented to the RVF-LH. These results suggest that whereas
color CP is stronger in the LH than RH in adults, prelinguistic CP
in infants is lateralized to the RH. The findings suggest that language-driven
CP in adults may not build on prelinguistic CP, but that language
instead imposes its categories on a LH that is not categorically
prepartitioned.},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.0712286105},
keywords = {Adult, Age Factors, Color Perception, Functional Laterality, Humans, Infant, Language, Reaction Time, Visual Fields, 11163613},
}
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