Contingent capture (CC) theory postulates that attention can only be captured by top-down matching stimuli. Although the contingent capture of attention is a well-known and thoroughly studied phenomenon, there is still no consensus on the characteristics of the top-down template which guides the search for colors. We tried to replicate the classical contingent capture effect on color (Experiment 1) and then added linguistic processing to this perceptual effect (Experiment 2). In Experiment 1, attention was indeed captured by the cues of the same color as the target, while the cues of different colors were successfully ignored. In Experiment 2, the cue color was never identical to the target color but would either belong to the same linguistic category or not (i.e., linguistic matching and linguistic nonmatching cues). In both cases, cues were made to be equally perceptually distant from the target. Although, attention was captured by both cue types, the degree of capture was significantly higher for linguistic matching cues. Our research replicated the classic contingent capture effect but on color, and also demonstrated the effect of color categories in the search task. In short, we demonstrated the effect of color categories in the search task. Results show that the template for color search contains physical characteristics of color, as well as information about color category names.

偶然捕获（CC）理论假设注意力只能通过自上而下匹配刺激来捕获。尽管偶然捕获注意力是一种众所周知且经过深入研究的现象，但对于指导颜色搜索的自上而下模板的特征仍然没有达成共识。我们尝试复制经典的颜色偶然捕获效果（实验 1），然后向这种感知效果添加语言处理（实验 2）。在实验1中，注意力确实被与目标相同颜色的线索所吸引，而不同颜色的线索则被成功忽略。在实验2中，提示颜色永远不会与目标颜色相同，但要么属于同一语言类别，要么不属于同一语言类别（即，语言匹配和语言不匹配提示）。在这两种情况下，提示都被设置为在感知上与目标的距离相同。尽管两种提示类型都捕获了注意力，但语言匹配提示的捕获程度明显更高。我们的研究复制了经典的偶然捕获效果，但在颜色上，并且还证明了颜色类别在搜索任务中的效果。简而言之，我们演示了颜色类别在搜索任务中的效果。结果表明，颜色搜索模板包含颜色的物理特征以及颜色类别名称的信息。