Millar S
Br J Psychol. 1975 May;66(2):193-201. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1975.tb01455.x.
Forty-eight severly blind children, able to cope with set-sizes of two and three, four, five or six serial items were tested on probed recall of Braille letters they could either name or discriminate, when the letters were (1) dissimilar in tactual characteristics and name sounds, (2) similar in feel, but different in name sound, and (3) dissimilar in feel but similar in name sound. Results showed that tactual similarity produced recall decrements by subjects able to be tested under set-sizes of up to five items, while phonological similarity produced recall decrements by subjects testable under set-sizes of five and six items. It was argued that tactual information survives perception and affects recall, and that blind children can encode tactual inputs either tactually or verbally, but that this probably depends upon different processes.
48名严重失明儿童，能够应对数量为2、3、4、5或6个连续项目的集合大小，当布莱叶盲文字母具有以下三种情况时，对他们进行探测回忆测试：他们能够说出或区分这些字母，(1)触觉特征和名称发音不同；(2)触感相似，但名称发音不同；(3)触感不同，但名称发音相似。结果表明，触觉相似性会导致能够在多达5个项目的集合大小下接受测试的受试者回忆量减少，而语音相似性会导致能够在5个和6个项目的集合大小下接受测试的受试者回忆量减少。有人认为，触觉信息在感知后仍存在并影响回忆，并且失明儿童可以通过触觉或语言方式对触觉输入进行编码，但这可能取决于不同的过程。
