Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione, Università degli Studi di Padova Padova, Italy.
Dipartimento di Storia, Scienze dell'Uomo e della Formazione, Università degli Studi di Sassari Sassari, Italy.
Front Psychol. 2014 Oct 8;5:1139. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01139. eCollection 2014.
In the present work we were concerned with the role of sound representations in object recognition. In order to address this issue we made use of a picture naming task in which target pictures might be accompanied by a white-noise burst. White-noise was thought to interfere with the representation of the sound possibly associated with the depicted object. We reasoned that if such a representation is critical for the recognition of objects strongly associated with certain sounds, white-noise interference should affect the naming of pictures representing objects with typical sounds leaving the naming of object without typical sounds unaffected. The results were congruent with the predictions and consistent with a view of the semantic representations of objects as collection of related representations, modal in nature, and mandatorily accessed.
在本工作中，我们关注的是声音表征在物体识别中的作用。为了解决这个问题，我们使用了图片命名任务，在这个任务中，目标图片可能会伴随着白噪声爆发。白噪声被认为会干扰与所描述物体可能相关的声音的表示。我们推断，如果这种表示对于识别与某些声音强烈相关的物体至关重要，那么白噪声干扰应该会影响代表具有典型声音的物体的图片的命名，而不会影响代表没有典型声音的物体的图片的命名。结果与预测一致，与将物体的语义表示视为相关表示的集合的观点一致，这些表示具有模态性质，并且是强制性访问的。
