Rummer R, Schrobildgen M
Z Exp Psychol. 2000;47(2):144-54.
Potter and Lombardi (1990) showed that words that are semantically similar to nouns of auditorily or visually presented sentences intrude into sentence recall if presented in an unrelated word list (given either before or after the sentence). The authors interpreted this finding in terms of the conceptual regeneration hypothesis. This hypothesis states that sentence recall is based on conceptual information whereas the role of phonological information is negligible. However, this general interpretation is questionable. In order to demonstrate the involvement of phonological information in sentence recall, we used Potter and Lombardi's intrusion paradigm. Participants were either presented with auditory or visual material. With respect to visual presentations we used two conditions: a rapid presentation rate (rapid serial visual presentation, RSVP) and a slow presentation rate. Under all conditions the word list was presented before the sentence. The intrusion effect was only found for RSVP but not for the slow conditions. This finding provides evidence for the assumption that phonological information generally plays an important role in short-term sentence recall.
波特和隆巴迪（1990年）指出，如果在一个不相关的单词列表中呈现（在句子之前或之后给出），那么与听觉或视觉呈现句子中的名词语义相似的单词会干扰句子回忆。作者根据概念再生假设对这一发现进行了解释。该假设认为，句子回忆基于概念信息，而语音信息的作用微不足道。然而，这种一般性的解释值得怀疑。为了证明语音信息在句子回忆中的作用，我们采用了波特和隆巴迪的干扰范式。向参与者呈现听觉或视觉材料。对于视觉呈现，我们使用了两种条件：快速呈现速率（快速序列视觉呈现，RSVP）和慢速呈现速率。在所有条件下，单词列表都在句子之前呈现。干扰效应仅在RSVP条件下发现，而在慢速条件下未发现。这一发现为语音信息通常在短期句子回忆中起重要作用这一假设提供了证据。
