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Exploring the Effect of Red and Blue on Cognitive Task Performances

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, May 2016
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Title
Exploring the Effect of Red and Blue on Cognitive Task Performances
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, May 2016
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00784
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Authors

Tiansheng Xia, Lu Song, Ting T. Wang, Ling Tan, Lei Mo

Abstract

Previous studies on the effect of color on cognitive task performances and have led to two different views. Some researchers think that the influence of red and blue on cognitive tasks is modulated by the difficulty of the task, and other researchers suggest that the influence mainly depends on the type of task. The current study combined these factors to investigate the effect of color on cognitive task performance. In Experiment 1, we manipulated the difficulty of the task to investigate the effect of red and blue on detail-oriented task performance (the proofreading task), whereas in Experiment 2 we manipulated task difficulty to explore the effect of red and blue on creative task performance (the Remote Associates Test). The results showed that red enhanced the performance on a simple detail-oriented task. However, blue improved the performance on a difficult detail-oriented task as well as on both simple and difficult creative tasks. The results of the current study indicate that the type and difficulty of the task together modulate the effect of color on cognitive performances.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 <1%
Hungary 1 <1%
Unknown 117 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 20 17%
Student > Bachelor 18 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 7%
Researcher 8 7%
Other 15 13%
Unknown 37 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 30 25%
Design 12 10%
Engineering 6 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 3%
Linguistics 3 3%
Other 26 22%
Unknown 38 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 34. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 September 2024.
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#1,262,432
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#2,667
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#22,063
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#53
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