Departmentof Psychology, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York 13902-6000, USA.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2010 Apr;17(2):231-6. doi: 10.3758/PBR.17.2.231.
Do readers "see" the words that story characters read and "hear" the words that they hear? Just as priming effects are reduced when stimuli are presented cross-modally on two different occasions, we found reduced transfer effects when story characters were described as experiencing stimuli cross-modally. In Experiment 1, a repeated phrase was described as being part of a spoken message in both Story A and Story B, and transfer effects were found. In Experiment 2, in contrast, when the phrase was described as a written note in one story and a spoken message in the other, reading-time results indicated that readers did not retrieve the meaning of the repeated phrase. The results are consistent with findings indicating that visual imagery simulates visual processing and that auditory imagery simulates auditory processing. We conclude that readers mentally simulate the perceptual details involved in story characters' linguistic exchanges.
读者是否“看到”故事角色阅读的单词,“听到”他们听到的单词?就像启动效应在两种不同的情况下以跨模态的方式呈现刺激时会减少一样,当故事角色被描述为以跨模态的方式体验刺激时,我们发现转移效应会减少。在实验 1 中,一个重复的短语在故事 A 和故事 B 中都被描述为一个口语信息的一部分,并且发现了转移效应。在实验 2 中,相反,当短语在一个故事中被描述为书面笔记,而在另一个故事中被描述为口语信息时,阅读时间的结果表明读者没有检索到重复短语的意思。这些结果与表明视觉意象模拟视觉处理,听觉意象模拟听觉处理的发现一致。我们得出结论,读者在心理上模拟故事角色语言交流中涉及的感知细节。