David P, Hirshman E
Ohio State University, USA.
Am J Psychol. 1998 Spring;111(1):77-87.
We empirically investigated whether the auditory and visual subsystems mediating priming interact. We examined the hypothesis that processing in the visual subsystem during an implicit memory test permits access to memories in the auditory subsystem that were stored concurrently with visual memories. We did so by comparing priming in visual perceptual identification following both visual and auditory presentation (multimodal priming), only visual presentation (within-modality priming), or only auditory presentation (cross-modality priming). We focused on the comparison between multimodal and within-modality priming because multimodal priming should be larger than within-modality priming under our hypothesis. However, multimodal priming was approximately equal to within-modality priming in four experimental conditions. These results are consistent with the view that there is limited interaction between the visual and auditory subsystems mediating priming.
我们通过实证研究了介导启动效应的听觉和视觉子系统是否相互作用。我们检验了这样一个假设：在隐式记忆测试中，视觉子系统中的加工过程能够访问与视觉记忆同时存储的听觉子系统中的记忆。我们通过比较视觉和听觉呈现后视觉知觉识别中的启动效应（多模态启动效应）、仅视觉呈现后的启动效应（模态内启动效应）或仅听觉呈现后的启动效应（跨模态启动效应）来进行研究。我们重点关注多模态启动效应和模态内启动效应之间的比较，因为根据我们的假设，多模态启动效应应该大于模态内启动效应。然而，在四个实验条件下，多模态启动效应与模态内启动效应大致相等。这些结果与介导启动效应的视觉和听觉子系统之间存在有限相互作用的观点一致。
