Recognition of briefly exposed digits, Latin letters, and Chinese characters: Evidence for language-specific differences in encoding and rehearsal
Lass, U; Yan, S; Yang, YF; Chen, GP; Sun, P; Becker, D; Fa, YQ; Luer, G
刊名ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PSYCHOLOGIE
2006
卷号214期号:1页码:24-36
关键词language effects on cognition letter recognition memory span object encoding partial report technique
ISSN号0044-3409
文献子类Article
英文摘要German and Chinese students took part in four experiments. In Experiment 1, which was based on the Sperling paradigm, the participants were asked to report as many digits as possible from a briefly presented matrix. In contrast to previous experiments which had made use of Latin letters, the Chinese clearly outperformed the Germans this time. In Experiment 2, memory span for digits and Latin letters was measured. With Latin letters, the Germans achieved higher scores than the Chinese. The opposite was true for digit memory span. Taken together, the results indicate that performance in the Sperling task is not solely determined by encoding efficiency but also by rehearsal speed. In Experiment 3, the participants had to recognize only one item from briefly exposed stimulus displays. Besides Latin letters, language-specific stimuli were used consisting of combinations of letters for Germans and components of Chinese characters for Chinese. Based on the data from Experiment 3, two language-specific item sets comperable in terms of task difficulty, were chosen for use in the Sperling task in Experiment 4. Under these conditions, there was no significant difference in the overall level of performance between the two language groups. Performance was influenced, however, by the position of the items to be reported and this in a slightly different way in each language group. We discuss to what extent reading habits influenced the allocation of attention and adaptive processes caused differences in item recognition.; German and Chinese students took part in four experiments. In Experiment 1, which was based on the Sperling paradigm, the participants were asked to report as many digits as possible from a briefly presented matrix. In contrast to previous experiments which had made use of Latin letters, the Chinese clearly outperformed the Germans this time. In Experiment 2, memory span for digits and Latin letters was measured. With Latin letters, the Germans achieved higher scores than the Chinese. The opposite was true for digit memory span. Taken together, the results indicate that performance in the Sperling task is not solely determined by encoding efficiency but also by rehearsal speed. In Experiment 3, the participants had to recognize only one item from briefly exposed stimulus displays. Besides Latin letters, language-specific stimuli were used consisting of combinations of letters for Germans and components of Chinese characters for Chinese. Based on the data from Experiment 3, two language-specific item sets comperable in terms of task difficulty, were chosen for use in the Sperling task in Experiment 4. Under these conditions, there was no significant difference in the overall level of performance between the two language groups. Performance was influenced, however, by the position of the items to be reported and this in a slightly different way in each language group. We discuss to what extent reading habits influenced the allocation of attention and adaptive processes caused differences in item recognition.
学科主题心理语言学
语种英语
WOS记录号WOS:000235237100003
公开日期2011-08-22
内容类型期刊论文
源URL[http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/5658]  
专题心理研究所_中国科学院心理研究所回溯数据库(1956-2010)
作者单位1.Univ Gottingen, Georg Elias Muller Inst Psychol, D-37073 Gottingen, Germany
2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Beijing, Peoples R China
3.E China Normal Univ, Dept Psychol, Shanghai 200062, Peoples R China
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Lass, U,Yan, S,Yang, YF,et al. Recognition of briefly exposed digits, Latin letters, and Chinese characters: Evidence for language-specific differences in encoding and rehearsal[J]. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PSYCHOLOGIE,2006,214(1):24-36.
APA Lass, U.,Yan, S.,Yang, YF.,Chen, GP.,Sun, P.,...&Luer, G.(2006).Recognition of briefly exposed digits, Latin letters, and Chinese characters: Evidence for language-specific differences in encoding and rehearsal.ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PSYCHOLOGIE,214(1),24-36.
MLA Lass, U,et al."Recognition of briefly exposed digits, Latin letters, and Chinese characters: Evidence for language-specific differences in encoding and rehearsal".ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PSYCHOLOGIE 214.1(2006):24-36.
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