Spatial iconicity affects semantic relatedness judgments
Spatial iconicity affects semantic relatedness judgments
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DOI：
10.3758/bf03196557
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发表时间：
2003-12-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Yaxley, RH
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作者：
Zwaan, RA;Yaxley, RH
进行了三个实验来检验空间象似性是否影响语义相关性判断。受试者可以快速判断同时出现的单词对的成员是否在语义上相关。在实验 1 中，单词一个一个地呈现。在实验对中，这些词表示较大物体的一部分（例如，阁楼地下室）。这些词要么与其所指对象处于图像关系（例如，阁楼位于地下室上方），要么处于反向图像关系（地下室位于阁楼上方）。反向图标条件产生的语义相关性判断速度明显慢于图标条件。实验2和实验3表明，当单词水平呈现时，不会出现这种效应，从而排除了象似性效应是由单词阅读顺序引起的。讨论了这一发现的两种替代解释。
Three experiments were conducted to examine whether spatial iconicity affects semantic-relatedness judgments. Subjects made speeded decisions with regard to whether members of a simultaneously presented word pair were semantically related. In Experiment 1, the words were presented one above the other. In the experimental pair, the words denoted parts of larger objects (e.g., ATTIC-BASEMENT). The words were either in an iconic relation with their referents (e.g., ATTIC presented above BASEMENT) or in a reverse-iconic relation (BASEMENT above ATTIC). The reverse-iconic condition yielded significantly slower semantic-relatedness judgments than did the iconic condition. Experiments 2 and 3 showed that this effect did not occur when the words were presented horizontally, thus ruling out that the iconicity effect is due to the order in which the words are read. Two alternative explanations for this finding are discussed.