Xu Zhengye, Liu Duo
Department of Special Education and Counselling, The Education University of Hong Kong, No. 10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, N.T. Hong Kong.
Read Writ. 2022 Jan 29:1-28. doi: 10.1007/s11145-021-10238-2.
A sample of 144 s- and 150 fourth-grade Chinese children was recruited to investigate the influence of body-object interactions (BOIs) on word recognition, i.e., how easily they could interact physically with each word's referent. The moderation on this relationship of children's screen time for entertainment purposes (i.e., the viewing or use of any device with a screen) was also examined. In a lexical decision task, the children were asked to judge whether each item was a real Chinese word. Each real word was assigned a BOI rating score. Model analysis showed that the BOI rating was a significant predictor of the children's word recognition performances. The children recognized the words with higher BOI ratings at higher accuracy rates and higher response speeds more than the words with lower BOI ratings, showing a BOI effect. These results suggest an involvement of sensorimotor information in processing concepts. As well, the results showed a moderating effect of screen time on the BOI effect. With the increase of screen time, the BOI effect was reduced in terms of response speed. Moreover, the influence of the screen time on the BOI effect was larger in the second graders than in the fourth graders.
招募了144名二年级和150名四年级中国儿童作为样本，以研究身体与物体互动（BOIs）对单词识别的影响，即他们与每个单词所指对象进行身体互动的难易程度。同时也考察了儿童用于娱乐目的的屏幕时间（即观看或使用任何带屏幕的设备）对这种关系的调节作用。在词汇判断任务中，要求儿童判断每个项目是否为一个真正的中文单词。每个真实单词都被赋予一个BOI评级分数。模型分析表明，BOI评级是儿童单词识别表现的一个重要预测指标。与BOI评级较低的单词相比，儿童对BOI评级较高的单词识别准确率更高，反应速度更快，呈现出BOI效应。这些结果表明感觉运动信息参与了概念处理。此外，结果还显示屏幕时间对BOI效应有调节作用。随着屏幕时间的增加，反应速度方面的BOI效应降低。而且，屏幕时间对BOI效应的影响在二年级学生中比在四年级学生中更大。
