Gobara Akihiko, Yamada Yuki, Miura Kayo
Kyushu University, Japan; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan.
Kyushu University, Japan.
Iperception. 2016 Dec 6;7(6):2041669516684244. doi: 10.1177/2041669516684244. eCollection 2016 Nov-Dec.
The present study investigated whether aurally presented mimetic words affect the judgment of the final position of a moving object. In Experiment 1, horizontal apparent motion of a visual target was presented, and an auditory mimetic word of "byun" (representing rapid forward motion), "pitari" (representing stop of motion), or "nisahi" (nonsense syllable) was presented via headphones. Observers were asked to judge which of two test stimuli was horizontally aligned with the target. The results showed that forward displacement in the "pitari" condition was significantly smaller than in the "byun" and "nisahi" conditions. However, when non-mimetic but meaningful words were presented (Experiment 2), this effect did not occur. Our findings suggest that the mimetic words, especially that meaning stop of motion, affect spatial localization by means of mental imagery regarding "stop" established by the phonological information of the word.
本研究调查了听觉呈现的拟声词是否会影响对移动物体最终位置的判断。在实验1中，呈现视觉目标的水平表观运动，并通过耳机呈现“byun”（表示快速向前运动）、“pitari”（表示运动停止）或“nisahi”（无意义音节）的听觉拟声词。要求观察者判断两个测试刺激中哪一个与目标水平对齐。结果表明，“pitari”条件下的向前位移明显小于“byun”和“nisahi”条件下的。然而，当呈现非拟声但有意义的单词时（实验2），这种效应并未出现。我们的研究结果表明，拟声词，尤其是表示运动停止的拟声词，通过由单词的语音信息建立的关于“停止”的心理意象来影响空间定位。
