Wassenburg Stephanie I, Zwaan Rolf A
Department of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2010 Sep;63(9):1665-70. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2010.502579.
We conducted an eye tracking experiment to investigate whether prior visual experience affects later language processing. We assessed the effects of previously encountered pictures of objects with a vertical or horizontal orientation on the later reading of sentences that implied an object's orientation. First-pass reading times were longer when participants read about an implied orientation that did not match the orientation of the previously seen picture than when the orientation matched. This suggests that a picture encountered 20 min earlier and incidental to the reading task influenced reading. These results have implications for theories of reading comprehension and embodied cognition.
我们进行了一项眼动追踪实验，以研究先前的视觉体验是否会影响后续的语言处理。我们评估了先前遇到的垂直或水平方向物体图片对后续隐含物体方向的句子阅读的影响。当参与者阅读隐含方向与先前看到的图片方向不匹配的句子时，首次阅读时间比方向匹配时更长。这表明，20分钟前遇到的且与阅读任务无关的图片影响了阅读。这些结果对阅读理解理论和具身认知具有启示意义。
