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J Psycholinguist Res. 2021 Feb;50(1):231-237. doi: 10.1007/s10936-020-09741-4. Epub 2021 Jan 4.
The articles in this issue include experimental research and clinical studies on the bidirectional process of connecting experience and words, which we term the Referential Process (RP). These concluding notes focus on new questions and new directions for research. Studies now under way include characterization and measurement of the Arousal function of the referential process, which involves how people talk when the connection to specific ideas is not yet fully developed, and new research on paralinguistic features of interpersonal communication. Further work in these areas will involve automatic transcription technology to incorporate pitch, rate of speech and loudness, as well as development of a Time-DAAP program to enable such assessment. Research is also needed to investigate the relationship between language and underlying physiological and neurological mechanisms. These relationships can be examined using physiological measures such as galvanic skin response (GSR) and changes in heart rate and respiration. While fMRI scans are not compatible with tasks requiring speech production, fMRI compatible tablet systems are available for writing tasks. Participants may also be scanned while reading literary passages that show differences in RP functions. A major goal of our research program is the application of RP measures in large scale treatment efficacy and effectiveness studies evaluating particular treatment forms. The computerized referential process procedures have the potential to study whole trajectories of large numbers of treatments; and also to identify important turning points within treatments and within sessions. The interpretation of these measures in the context of a systematic theory of treatment process has the value of enabling results that are not only statistically powerful but clinically significant as well. Other potential areas of study include application of the language measures in large scale studies of political, religious and literary discourse.
本期文章包括对连接经验和词语的双向过程（我们称之为参照过程，RP）的实验研究和临床研究。这些结语着重于新的问题和研究新方向。目前正在进行的研究包括对参照过程的唤醒功能的特征描述和测量，这涉及到当与特定想法的联系尚未完全建立时人们如何说话，以及对人际交流副语言特征的新研究。在这些领域的进一步工作将涉及自动转录技术，以纳入音高、语速和响度，并开发一个时间 DAAP 程序以实现这种评估。还需要研究语言与潜在生理和神经机制之间的关系。可以使用生理测量（如皮肤电反应，GSR）和心率及呼吸变化来检查这些关系。虽然 fMRI 扫描与需要言语产生的任务不兼容，但可用于书写任务的 fMRI 兼容平板电脑系统是可用的。当参与者阅读显示 RP 功能差异的文学段落时，他们也可能会被扫描。我们研究计划的一个主要目标是将 RP 测量应用于评估特定治疗形式的大规模治疗效果和有效性研究。计算机化的参照过程程序有可能研究大量治疗的整体轨迹；并识别治疗和治疗过程中的重要转折点。在系统治疗过程理论的背景下对这些措施进行解释，具有不仅具有统计学上的强大性而且具有临床意义的价值。其他潜在的研究领域包括在大规模的政治、宗教和文学话语研究中应用语言测量。
