Mathewson Kyle E
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Perception. 2018 Apr;47(4):466-469. doi: 10.1177/0301006618756810. Epub 2018 Feb 5.
Many individuals cannot at first see two ambiguous figures as different interpretations simultaneously, even with effort. Here in a large sample replication, we find that the phrase "duck eats rabbit" allows those who could not see a duck and rabbit side by side to do so. In a second experiment, we show that a relational phrase "next to" that does not disambiguate the spatial position interpretation does not similarly allow the duck to be seen next to the rabbit, supporting the proposal that top-down semantic-framing can influence perception of ambiguous figures.
许多人起初无法同时将两个模糊图形看作两种不同的解释，即使努力尝试也不行。在本次大规模样本复制研究中，我们发现“鸭子吃兔子”这个短语能让那些无法同时看到鸭子和兔子的人做到这一点。在第二个实验中，我们表明一个无法消除空间位置解释歧义的关系短语“在……旁边”并不能同样使人们看到鸭子在兔子旁边，这支持了自上而下的语义框架能够影响对模糊图形的感知这一观点。
