Do novel linguistic labels have privileged access to attentional resources compared to non-linguistic labels? This study explores this possibility through two experiments with a training and an attentional overlap task. Experiment 1 investigates how novel label and object-only stimuli influence resource allocation and disengagement of visual attention. Experiment 2 tests the impact of linguistic information on visual attention by comparing novel tones and labels. Because disengagement of attention is affected both by the saliency of the perceptual stimulus and by the degree of familiarity with the stimulus to be disengaged from, we compared pupil size variations and saccade latency under different test conditions: (i) consistent with (i.e., identical to) the training; (ii) inconsistent with the training (i.e., with an altered feature), and (iii) deprived of one feature only in Experiment 1. Experiment 1 indicated a general consistency advantage (and deprived disadvantage) driven by linguistic label-object pairs compared to object-only stimuli. Experiment 2 revealed that tone-object pairs led to higher pupil dilation and longer saccade latency than linguistic label-object pairs. Our results suggest that novel linguistic labels preferentially impact the early orienting of attention.

与非语言标签相比，新颖的语言标签是否有特权获得注意力资源？本研究通过训练和注意力重叠任务的两个实验探索了这种可能性。实验 1 研究新标签和仅对象刺激如何影响资源分配和视觉注意力的脱离。实验 2 通过比较新的语气和标签来测试语言信息对视觉注意力的影响。由于注意力的脱离受到知觉刺激的显着性和对要脱离的刺激的熟悉程度的影响，我们比较了不同测试条件下的瞳孔大小变化和眼跳潜伏期：（i）与（即相同的）到) 培训；(ii) 与训练不一致（即，具有改变的特征），(iii) 仅在实验 1 中被剥夺了一个特征。实验 1 表明与仅对象刺激相比，由语言标签-对象对驱动的一般一致性优势（和被剥夺的劣势）。实验 2 显示，与语言标签-对象对相比，音调-对象对导致更高的瞳孔扩张和更长的扫视延迟。我们的结果表明，新的语言标签优先影响注意力的早期定向。