Radvansky G A, Zacks R T
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824-1117.
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 1991 Sep;17(5):940-53. doi: 10.1037//0278-7393.17.5.940.
Explanations of data from fan effect experiments have been based on propositional network models. This article presents findings not readily predicted by such models. In particular, in three experiments we found that, during a speeded-recognition test, subjects retrieved facts about several objects associated with a single location faster than facts about several locations associated with a single object. Indeed, there was no fan effect in the former case despite the fact that there were an equivalent number of associations among concepts in both conditions. We suggest that such data are consistent with a mental model representational account.
对扇形效应实验数据的解释一直基于命题网络模型。本文呈现了一些此类模型难以轻易预测的研究结果。具体而言，在三项实验中我们发现，在快速识别测试期间，受试者检索与单个位置相关的多个物体的事实，比检索与单个物体相关的多个位置的事实更快。事实上，在前一种情况下不存在扇形效应，尽管在两种条件下概念之间的联想数量相当。我们认为，这些数据与心理模型表征解释是一致的。
