Arcara Giorgio, Lacaita Graziano, Mattaloni Elisa, Passarini Laura, Mondini Sara, Benincà Paola, Semenza Carlo
Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università di Padova Padova, Italy.
Front Psychol. 2012 Feb 3;3:11. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00011. eCollection 2012.
The present study is the first neuropsychological investigation into the problem of the mental representation and processing of irreversible binomials (IBs), i.e., word pairs linked by a conjunction (e.g., "hit and run," "dead or alive"). In order to test their lexical status, the phenomenon of neglect dyslexia is explored. People with left-sided neglect dyslexia show a clear lexical effect: they can read IBs better (i.e., by dropping the leftmost words less frequently) when their components are presented in their correct order. This may be taken as an indication that they treat these constructions as lexical, not decomposable, elements. This finding therefore constitutes strong evidence that IBs tend to be stored in the mental lexicon as a whole and that this whole form is preferably addressed in the retrieval process.
本研究是对不可逆二项式（IBs）的心理表征和处理问题的首次神经心理学调查，即由连词连接的词对（例如，“肇事逃逸”、“生死”）。为了测试它们的词汇地位，对忽视性阅读障碍现象进行了探究。患有左侧忽视性阅读障碍的人表现出明显的词汇效应：当它们的组成部分按正确顺序呈现时，他们能更好地阅读IBs（即，较少遗漏最左边的单词）。这可能表明他们将这些结构视为词汇性的、不可分解的元素。因此，这一发现构成了有力的证据，表明IBs倾向于作为一个整体存储在心理词典中，并且在检索过程中更倾向于使用这种整体形式。
