Tanenhaus M K, Spivey-Knowlton M J, Eberhard K M, Sedivy J C
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, NY 14627, USA.
Science. 1995 Jun 16;268(5217):1632-4. doi: 10.1126/science.7777863.
Psycholinguists have commonly assumed that as a spoken linguistic message unfolds over time, it is initially structured by a syntactic processing module that is encapsulated from information provided by other perceptual and cognitive systems. To test the effects of relevant visual context on the rapid mental processes that accompany spoken language comprehension, eye movements were recorded with a head-mounted eye-tracking system while subjects followed instructions to manipulate real objects. Visual context influenced spoken word recognition and mediated syntactic processing, even during the earliest moments of language processing.
心理语言学家通常认为，随着口语语言信息随时间展开，它最初是由一个句法处理模块构建的，该模块与其他感知和认知系统提供的信息相互隔离。为了测试相关视觉语境对口语理解过程中快速心理过程的影响，研究人员使用头戴式眼动追踪系统记录了受试者在按照指令操作真实物体时的眼动情况。即使在语言处理的最初阶段，视觉语境也会影响口语单词识别并介导句法处理。
