Hollis J, Valentine T
Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, United Kingdom.
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2001 Jan;27(1):99-116.
Theoretical models of proper-name processing have been primarily derived from studies of people's names; however, they are thought to generalize to all classes of proper name. Five experiments are reported that use repetition priming to compare different classes of proper names. It was found that for people's names and landmark names, (a) production of a name in response to seeing a picture primed a subsequent familiarity decision to the same item's written name and (b) similarly, making a familiarity decision to an auditory presentation of a name primed a familiarity decision to the same item's written name. No comparable facilitation was found for the country-name stimuli. The presence of this specific facilitation was attributed to the nature of connectivity between conceptual and lexical representations. Theoretical views that proper names are unique, meaningless labels and that they are pure referencing expressions are evaluated.
专名处理的理论模型主要源自对人名的研究；然而，人们认为这些模型可以推广到所有专名类别。本文报告了五项实验，这些实验运用重复启动来比较不同类别的专名。研究发现，对于人名和地标名称，(a) 看到一幅图片后说出一个名字会启动对同一项目书面名称的后续熟悉度判断，并且 (b) 同样地，对一个名字的听觉呈现做出熟悉度判断会启动对同一项目书面名称的熟悉度判断。对于国名刺激，未发现类似的促进作用。这种特定促进作用的存在归因于概念表征和词汇表征之间的连接性质。本文还评估了专名是独特的、无意义的标签以及它们是纯粹的指称表达式的理论观点。
