García-Marco Enrique, Beltrán David, León Inmaculada, de Vega Manuel
University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
Brain Lang. 2016 Feb;153-154:20-6. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2016.01.002. Epub 2016 Feb 8.
This ERP study explores how the reader's brain is sensitive to the protagonist's perspective in the fictitious environment of narratives. Participants initially received narratives describing a protagonist living in a given geographical place. Later on they were given short paragraphs describing another character as "coming" or "going" to a place either close to or distant from the protagonist. Paragraphs referring to distant places elicited larger negative waves than those with places close to the protagonist. Moreover, narratives with the verb to come incoherent with the protagonist's perspective (e.g., "she came to the distant place") elicited larger negative-going waves in the 320-400ms time window than coherent paragraphs (e.g., "she came to the close place"). These results indicate that readers of narratives were able to take the protagonist's geographical perspective, showing discourse-level coherence effects when they read motion sentences with the marked deictic verb to come.
这项事件相关电位（ERP）研究探讨了在虚构的叙事环境中，读者的大脑如何对主人公的视角敏感。参与者最初收到描述一个生活在特定地理位置的主人公的叙事。后来，他们收到简短段落，描述另一个角色“前往”或“来到”一个距离主人公近或远的地方。提及远处地方的段落比提及主人公附近地方的段落引发了更大的负波。此外，动词“来”与主人公视角不一致的叙事（例如，“她来到了远处的地方”）在320 - 400毫秒的时间窗口内比连贯段落（例如，“她来到了附近的地方”）引发了更大的负向波。这些结果表明，叙事的读者能够采取主人公的地理视角，在阅读带有标志性指示动词“来”的移动句子时表现出语篇层面的连贯效应。
