van Leeuwen C, van den Hof M
Department of Psychonomy, Faculty of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Percept Psychophys. 1991 Nov;50(5):435-48. doi: 10.3758/bf03205060.
Three theoretical measures of Prägnanz were compared with four data sets. The theoretical measures were a stimulus-coding one (structural information load, SIL), a measure related to within memory processes (stability), and one based on the interaction of perception and memory (resonance). The four data sets were obtained in two experiments and involved goodness rating, grouping, and immediate and delayed recall. A complete set of seven-element binary serial patterns was used in each experiment. Both SIL and resonance were shown to correlate reliably with the data sets across tasks. The resonance measure, however, performed best. Prägnanz thus appears to be explained better by resonance than by stimulus coding or memory storage. Resonance explained all systematic variance in the recall tasks, but not in the other tasks. Regarding these, partial-correlation analyses showed that the effect of stability could be fully reduced to resonance. SIL could not be similarly reduced. Therefore, additional perceptual constraints, other than resonance, would be needed for a complete account of goodness in the judging or grouping tasks.
将简洁律的三种理论测度与四个数据集进行了比较。这些理论测度一种是刺激编码测度（结构信息负荷，SIL），一种是与记忆过程内部相关的测度（稳定性），还有一种是基于感知与记忆相互作用的测度（共鸣）。这四个数据集是在两个实验中获得的，涉及好感度评级、分组以及即时和延迟回忆。每个实验都使用了一组完整的七元素二进制序列模式。结果表明，SIL和共鸣与跨任务的数据集均具有可靠的相关性。然而，共鸣测度表现最佳。因此，用共鸣似乎比用刺激编码或记忆存储能更好地解释简洁律。共鸣解释了回忆任务中的所有系统方差，但在其他任务中并非如此。关于这些任务，偏相关分析表明稳定性的效应可以完全归结为共鸣。SIL则不能以类似方式归结。因此，要完整解释判断或分组任务中的好感度，除了共鸣之外，还需要其他额外的感知约束条件。
