Department of Psychology, Florida State University.
Cogn Sci. 2006 Nov 12;30(6):1097-112. doi: 10.1207/s15516709cog0000_91.
When participants are asked to make sensibility judgments on sentences that describe action toward the body (i.e., "Mark dealt the cards to you") or away from the body (i.e., "You dealt the cards to Mark"), they are faster to respond when the response requires an arm movement in the same direction as the action described by the sentence. This congruence effect is known as the Action-Sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE). This study reports 4 experiments that extend our understanding of the ACE by exploring how the time at which one prepares the motor response required for the sensibility judgment affects the magnitude of the ACE. Results show that the ACE arises only when participants have the opportunity to plan their motor response while they are processing the sentence.
当参与者被要求对描述朝向身体的动作（例如，“马克给你发牌”）或远离身体的动作（例如，“你给马克发牌”）的句子进行敏感性判断时，如果反应需要与句子描述的动作方向一致的手臂运动，他们的反应速度会更快。这种一致性效应被称为动作-句子兼容性效应（ACE）。本研究通过探索在进行句子处理时准备感性判断所需的运动反应的时间如何影响 ACE 的大小，从而扩展了对 ACE 的理解，报告了 4 项实验。结果表明，只有当参与者有机会在处理句子时计划其运动反应时，才会出现 ACE。
