Beech J R, Allport D A
Perception. 1978;7(2):129-38. doi: 10.1068/p070129.
Subjects listened to descriptions of familiar objects and the spatial relations between them and attempted to visualize these objects as a composite scene. The time taken to generate a composite visual image, measured from the end of the verbal description, increased dramatically and linearly with the number of objects in the scene. As this relationship was independent of the rate of presentation of the verbal description, over a wide range, it could not be due to the visualization process cumulatively lagging behind the verbal description. Our evidence indicates that this relationship is due to some process, necessary to the subjective visualization of a composite array as a whole, which commences only after the verbal description is complete.
受试者听取了对熟悉物体及其之间空间关系的描述，并试图将这些物体想象成一个复合场景。从语言描述结束开始测量，生成复合视觉图像所需的时间随着场景中物体数量的增加而急剧且呈线性增加。由于这种关系在很大范围内与语言描述的呈现速度无关，所以它不可能是由于可视化过程累积地落后于语言描述。我们的证据表明，这种关系是由于某种过程导致的，这种过程是将复合阵列作为一个整体进行主观可视化所必需的，并且只有在语言描述完成后才开始。
