Cheng Kaiwen, Deng Yanhui, Chen Yu, Wang Ling, Yan Hongmei
College of Language Intelligence, Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing, 400031, People's Republic of China.
School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), No.4, Section 2, North Jianshe Road, Chengdu, 610054, Sichuan, People's Republic of China.
J Psycholinguist Res. 2024 Dec 3;53(6):78. doi: 10.1007/s10936-024-10118-0.
Whether conscious awareness is critical for detecting semantic information in individual words remains debated. We hypothesize that this issue is specific to language type and that orthography serves as a mediator between semantics and conscious awareness. Using a priming-based paradigm called breaking continuous flash suppression (b-CFS) with a full factorial design, this study investigated whether orthographic similarity and semantic relatedness between the prime and target could modulate conscious access to Chinese single characters. Statistics indicated that semantic relatedness did not facilitate the character's breakthrough from CFS unless combined with orthographic similarity, although orthographic similarity alone had an inhibitory effect. The results were discussed in light of the "unconscious binding" hypothesis and object-updating theory in visual perception as well as the unique sub-morphemic construction in psycholinguistics. Our findings demonstrate the possibility of orthography-based semantic processing occurring outside of conscious awareness and suggest that the multilevel interaction activation model may be applicable to the early recognition of Chinese characters.
意识觉知对于检测单个单词中的语义信息是否至关重要仍存在争议。我们假设这个问题特定于语言类型，并且正字法在语义和意识觉知之间起中介作用。本研究采用一种基于启动的范式，即具有全因子设计的打破连续闪光抑制（b-CFS），来探究启动刺激和目标刺激之间的正字法相似性和语义相关性是否能够调节对中文单字的意识通达。统计结果表明，语义相关性除非与正字法相似性相结合，否则不会促进汉字从连续闪光抑制中突破，尽管单独的正字法相似性具有抑制作用。我们根据视觉感知中的“无意识捆绑”假说和客体更新理论以及心理语言学中独特的亚词素结构对结果进行了讨论。我们的研究结果证明了基于正字法的语义加工在意识觉知之外发生的可能性，并表明多级交互激活模型可能适用于汉字的早期识别。
