Sims V K, Hegarty M
Psychology Department, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA 18104, USA.
Mem Cognit. 1997 May;25(3):321-32. doi: 10.3758/bf03211288.
We used the dual-task paradigm to provide evidence that inferring the motion of a component of a mechanical system (mental animation) is a spatial visualization process. In two experiments, participants were asked to solve mental animation problems while simultaneously retaining either a visuospatial working memory load (a configuration of dots in a grid) or a verbal memory load (a list of letters). Both experiments showed that mental animation interferes more with memory for a concurrent visuospatial load than with memory for a verbal load. Experiment 1 also showed that a visuospatial working memory load interferes more with mental animation than does a verbal memory load. Furthermore, Experiment 2 showed that mental animation interferes more with a visuospatial memory load than does a verbal reasoning task that takes approximately the same amount of time.
我们采用双任务范式来提供证据，证明推断机械系统某个部件的运动（心理动画）是一个空间可视化过程。在两个实验中，参与者被要求解决心理动画问题，同时保持视觉空间工作记忆负荷（网格中的点配置）或言语记忆负荷（字母列表）。两个实验均表明，心理动画对并发视觉空间负荷记忆的干扰大于对言语负荷记忆的干扰。实验1还表明，视觉空间工作记忆负荷对心理动画的干扰大于言语记忆负荷。此外，实验2表明，心理动画对视觉空间记忆负荷的干扰大于耗时大致相同的言语推理任务。
