Walker P, Moylan K
Department of Psychology, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, U.K.
Neuropsychologia. 1994 Mar;32(3):289-97. doi: 10.1016/0028-3932(94)90132-5.
The unitisation effect in probed feature-recall was exploited to reveal changes in the representation of objects consequent on the loss of sight. Blind and sighted adults were given verbal descriptions of simple objects and later recalled the colour and surface texture of each object. While the blind and sighted were equally capable of recalling an object's colour, the blind were more capable than the sighted at recalling its surface texture. The superior recall of surface texture by the blind emerged very gradually as an increasing percentage of their lifetime was spent without sight. It is concluded that features salient for the haptic sense are increasingly likely to be incorporated in the blind person's representation of objects.
在探测性特征回忆中的单元化效应被用于揭示因失明而导致的物体表征变化。向盲人和有视力的成年人提供简单物体的口头描述，随后让他们回忆每个物体的颜色和表面质地。虽然盲人和有视力的人在回忆物体颜色方面同样有能力，但盲人在回忆物体表面质地方面比有视力的人更有能力。盲人对表面质地的卓越回忆是随着他们一生中失明时间占比的增加而非常逐渐地显现出来的。得出的结论是，对于触觉感官而言显著的特征越来越有可能被纳入盲人对物体的表征中。
