Hugentobler Katharina Gloria, Lüdtke Jana
Department of Education and Psychology, Experimental and Neurocognitive Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2021 Oct 20;12:737756. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.737756. eCollection 2021.
Reading and understanding poetic texts is often described as an interactive process influenced by the words and phrases building the poems and all associations and images induced by them in the readers mind. Iser, for example, described the understanding process as the closing of a good Gestalt promoted by mental images. Here, we investigate the effect that semantic cohesion, that is the internal connection of a list words, has on understanding and appreciation of poetic texts. To do this, word lists are presented as modern micropoems to the participants and the (ease of) extraction of underlying concepts as well as the affective and aesthetic responses are implicitly and explicitly measured. We found that a unifying concept is found more easily and unifying concepts vary significantly less between participants when the words composing a micropoem are semantically related. Moreover these items are liked better and are understood more easily. Our study shows evidence for the assumed relationship between building spontaneous associations, forming mental imagery, and understanding and appreciation of poetic texts. In addition, we introduced a new method well-suited to manipulate backgrounding features independently of foregrounding features which allows to disentangle the effects of both on poetry reception.
阅读和理解诗歌文本通常被描述为一个互动过程，该过程受到构成诗歌的单词和短语以及它们在读者脑海中引发的所有联想和意象的影响。例如，伊瑟尔将理解过程描述为由心理意象促成的良好完形的闭合。在此，我们研究语义连贯（即一组单词的内部联系）对诗歌文本理解和欣赏的影响。为此，将单词列表作为现代微型诗呈现给参与者，并隐式和显式地测量潜在概念的（提取难易程度）以及情感和审美反应。我们发现，当构成微型诗的单词在语义上相关时，更容易找到统一的概念，并且参与者之间统一概念的差异显著更小。此外，这些项目更受喜爱且更容易理解。我们的研究为建立自发联想、形成心理意象与诗歌文本理解和欣赏之间的假定关系提供了证据。此外，我们引入了一种新方法，该方法非常适合独立于前景特征来操纵背景特征，从而能够区分两者对诗歌接受的影响。
