Exploring The Effects Of Color Perception On Semantic Awareness By The Breaking Continuous Flash Suppression Technology

The influence of perception on language has been a topic of great interest.Regarding the impact mechanism of perception on semantic processing,the two theories have given different interpretations: the symbolic semantics theory believes that perception is rising to the conceptual phase on semantic processing through abstract semantic symbols;the embodied semantics theory suggests that perception and language share a neural mechanism and that semantic processing involves invoking perceptual representations.To shed light on this debate,the breaking continuous flash suppression paradigm.this article explores the impact of color perception on semantic awareness by the breaking continuous flash suppression.The pre-experiment has shown that the color perception presented in the short-term can facilitate the acquisition of conscious awareness of Chinese word semantics,as demonstrated by the fact that for upright words,the time required to break suppression was faster in the colorword congruent condition than in the incongruent condition,while there was no difference between the two conditions for inverted characters.On this basis,Experiment 1 modulates the state of consciousness for short-term color perception(200 milliseconds): in the unconscious condition,color stimuli are invisible and cannot enter consciousness by continuous flash suppression(CFS),whereas in the conscious condition,no CFS masking is presented and color stimuli are visible and enter consciousness.It has been found that color perception can facilitate the acquisition of conscious awareness of Chinese words in both conscious and unconscious states.Since only low-level perceptual processing was present in the unconscious condition of CFS,this suggests that low-level color perceptual processing can influence semantic awareness.In order to further verify whether color perception is necessary for semantic processing,Experiment 2 further extended the color perception presentation time to 4 seconds based on Experiment 1,and reduced color correspondence neuronal reactivity through color adaptation.The results showed that color perception suppressed the acquisition of conscious awareness of Chinese words in both conscious and unconscious states.In conclusion,our findings are consistent with the expectations of the embodied semantic theory,suggesting that semantic awareness requires the involvement of color perception.