New Boris, Guichet Clément, Spinelli Elsa, Barra Julien
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France.
Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LPNC, 38000 Grenoble, France.
J Cogn. 2025 Apr 23;8(1):32. doi: 10.5334/joc.445. eCollection 2025.
In this study, we investigated whether the visual "word height superiority illusion" (New et al., 2016) could be found in the auditory modality. In two experiments, participants listened to a word-word or word-pseudoword pair of the same or different intensity and judged whether one was louder than the other. They judged stimuli from their native language (L1) and second language (L2). In Experiment 1 with native French speakers, we found that words were perceived louder than pseudowords in the L1 (French) and the L2 (English). Moreover, the illusion was stronger in the L1 (French) than in the L2 (English). In Experiment 2 with native English speakers, we replicated the illusion both in the L1 (English) and the L2 (French) but to a similar extent. Overall, we replicated the visual word height superiority illusion in the auditory modality, which suggests that this may reflect a more general cognitive mechanism.
在本研究中，我们调查了视觉上的“单词高度优势错觉”（纽等人，2016年）是否能在听觉模态中被发现。在两个实验中，参与者听强度相同或不同的单词-单词或单词-假词对，并判断其中一个是否比另一个声音更大。他们对来自其母语（L1）和第二语言（L2）的刺激进行判断。在以法语为母语者参与的实验1中，我们发现，在L1（法语）和L2（英语）中，单词比假词被感知为声音更大。此外，L1（法语）中的错觉比L2（英语）中更强。在以英语为母语者参与的实验2中，我们在L1（英语）和L2（法语）中都复制出了错觉，但程度相似。总体而言，我们在听觉模态中复制出了视觉单词高度优势错觉，这表明这可能反映了一种更普遍的认知机制。
