State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; Advanced Innovation Center for Future Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; Siegler Center for Innovative Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China.
Cognition. 2019 Aug;189:141-154. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.03.014. Epub 2019 Apr 3.
Visual perception has been found to be a critical factor for reading comprehension and arithmetic computation in separate lines of research with different measures of visual form perception. The current study of 1099 Chinese elementary school students investigated whether the same visual form perception (assessed by a geometric figure matching task) underlies both reading comprehension and arithmetic computation. The results showed that visual form perception had close relations with both reading comprehension and arithmetic computation, even after controlling for age, gender, and cognitive factors such as processing speed, attention, working memory, visuo-spatial processing, and general intelligence. Results also showed that numerosity comparison's relations with reading comprehension and arithmetic computation were fully accounted for by visual form perception. These results suggest that reading comprehension and arithmetic computation might share a similar visual form processing mechanism.
视觉感知已被发现是阅读理解和算术计算这两个独立研究领域的关键因素，这些研究使用了不同的视觉形式感知测量方法。本研究对 1099 名中国小学生进行了调查，以研究相同的视觉形式感知（通过几何图形匹配任务评估）是否是阅读理解和算术计算的基础。结果表明，即使在控制年龄、性别以及处理速度、注意力、工作记忆、视空间处理和一般智力等认知因素后，视觉形式感知与阅读理解和算术计算也密切相关。结果还表明，数量比较与阅读理解和算术计算的关系完全可以由视觉形式感知来解释。这些结果表明，阅读理解和算术计算可能共享类似的视觉形式处理机制。
