Naturally-formed objects categorized as artifacts: Effect of objects’ functional depictions

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	Naturally-formed objects categorized as artifacts: Effect of objects’ functional depictions
	Sun Y.; Wang Z.; Liu Y.; Fu X.; 傅小兰
其他摘要	Past research has identified a variety of factors that influence cognitive processing of artifact concepts, but few experiments tested possible interactive patterns among these factors. Using a natural language depiction based free naming task, we explored how an object’s function and its history (information about how an object was formed by natural force) interact to affect categorization judgment in a 2×2 between- subjects experiment (N = 169). The study had two key findings: (i) Without presenting an object’s function, presenting the history of its natural formation increased subjects’ tendency to name the object under the “natural” domain and decreased their tendency to name it under the “artifact” domain; (ii) once we presented the depiction of an object’s function,the effect of history presentation on categorization disappeared: Subjects in both conditions strongly preferred naming objects as artifacts. In summary, presenting depiction of an object’s function inhibited the effect of history on object categorization. Current findings suggest that an object’s function plays a fundamental role in the cognitive processing of artifact concepts.
关键词	artifacts categorization design history function
学科领域	认知心理学
	2010
语种	英语
发表期刊	Chinese Science Bulletin
ISSN	1001-6538
卷号	55 期号:4-5 页码:398-402
收录类别	SCI
资助项目	二室傅小兰课题组
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/6947
专题	中国科学院心理研究所回溯数据库(1956-2010)
通讯作者	傅小兰
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sun Y.,Wang Z.,Liu Y.,等. Naturally-formed objects categorized as artifacts: Effect of objects’ functional depictions[J]. Chinese Science Bulletin,2010,55(4-5):398-402.
APA	Sun Y.,Wang Z.,Liu Y.,Fu X.,&傅小兰.(2010).Naturally-formed objects categorized as artifacts: Effect of objects’ functional depictions.Chinese Science Bulletin,55(4-5),398-402.
MLA	Sun Y.,et al."Naturally-formed objects categorized as artifacts: Effect of objects’ functional depictions".Chinese Science Bulletin 55.4-5(2010):398-402.

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