Robert Christelle, Postal Virginie, Mathey Stéphanie
Laboratoire de Psychologie EA 4139, University of Bordeaux, 3 Place de la Victoire, 33076 , Bordeaux, France,
J Psycholinguist Res. 2015 Apr;44(2):119-25. doi: 10.1007/s10936-014-9287-5.
This study aimed at examining whether and to what extent orthographic neighborhood of words influences performance in a working memory span task. Twenty-five participants performed a reading span task in which final words to be memorized had either no higher frequency orthographic neighbor or at least one. In both neighborhood conditions, each participant completed three series of two, three, four, or five sentences. Results indicated an interaction between orthographic neighborhood and list length. In particular, an inhibitory effect of orthographic neighborhood on recall appeared in list length 5. A view is presented suggesting that words with higher frequency neighbors require more resources to be memorized than words with no such neighbors. The implications of the results are discussed with regard to memory processes and current models of visual word recognition.
本研究旨在考察单词的正字法邻域是否以及在多大程度上影响工作记忆广度任务的表现。25名参与者完成了一项阅读广度任务，其中要记忆的最后一个单词要么没有高频正字法邻域，要么至少有一个。在两种邻域条件下，每位参与者都完成了三组由两个、三个、四个或五个句子组成的系列。结果表明正字法邻域和列表长度之间存在交互作用。具体而言，在列表长度为5时，正字法邻域对回忆产生了抑制作用。本文提出了一种观点，即具有高频邻域的单词比没有此类邻域的单词需要更多资源来记忆。研究结果的意义将从记忆过程和当前视觉单词识别模型的角度进行讨论。
