Büttner Anke Caroline
University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2007 Jun;60(6):779-89. doi: 10.1080/17470210701228744.
In previous semantic-illusion research the tacit assumption has been that questions and statements-to-be-verified of similar semantic content lead to a similar proportion of semantic illusions. This assumption was made despite the fact that questions are thought to have different processing demands from those of statements. This paper presents empirical evidence that questions tend to lead to more semantic illusions than do statements-to-be-verified. Two experiments were carried out to provide a direct comparison between the semantic-illusion rates for statements and for questions. In Experiment 1, open-ended questions led to significantly more semantic illusions than did true/false statements. Experiment 2 replicated this effect using multiple-choice response options in the question condition. It is concluded that the syntactic form of a sentence affects the way in which semantic information is processed, and the implications of the findings are discussed.
在以往的语义错觉研究中，一直存在这样一个隐含假设：具有相似语义内容的问题和待验证陈述会导致相似比例的语义错觉。尽管人们认为问题与陈述的处理要求不同，但还是做出了这个假设。本文给出了实证证据，表明问题比待验证陈述更容易导致语义错觉。进行了两项实验，以直接比较陈述和问题的语义错觉率。在实验1中，开放式问题导致的语义错觉明显多于是非陈述。实验2在问题条件下使用多项选择反应选项重复了这一效应。研究得出结论，句子的句法形式会影响语义信息的处理方式，并对研究结果的意义进行了讨论。
