Keeping the Result in Sight and Mind: General Cognitive Principles and Language-Specific Influences in the Perception and Memory of Resultative Events
Keeping the Result in Sight and Mind: General Cognitive Principles and Language-Specific Influences in the Perception and Memory of Resultative Events
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将结果牢记在心：一般认知原则和语言特定对结果事件的感知和记忆的影响
DOI：
10.1111/cogs.12708
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
M. Flecken
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作者：
M. Sakarias;M. Flecken
我们研究了人们如何注意和记忆事件的结局，这些事件的结局在对象受动作影响的程度上有所不同：结果性事件显示对象在事件过程中经历了视觉上显著的状态变化（剥土豆），而非结果性事件涉及对象没有或只有部分状态变化（在平底锅中搅拌）。我们调查一般的认知原则，和潜在的语言特定的影响，在口头和非口头的事件编码和记忆，在两个实验与荷兰和爱沙尼亚的参与者。爱沙尼亚语通过直接宾语名词的语法格强制性地标记观察者对事件结果的看法：在事件中经历部分/全部状态变化的对象分别用部分/完全格标记。因此，我们假设增加显着性的对象状态和事件的结果在爱沙尼亚语的扬声器，相比，荷兰语的扬声器。研究结果表明：（a）一个一般的认知原则，认真参加结果事件的结局，这意味着在事件处理的对象状态的认知显着性;（B）语言特定的提高注意力和记忆的事件结果下的口头任务要求在爱沙尼亚语。结果进行了讨论，在有关理论的事件认知，语言相对论，并认为发言。
We study how people attend to and memorize endings of events that differ in the degree to which objects in them are affected by an action: Resultative events show objects that undergo a visually salient change in state during the course of the event (peeling a potato), and non-resultative events involve objects that undergo no, or only partial state change (stirring in a pan). We investigate general cognitive principles, and potential language-specific influences, in verbal and nonverbal event encoding and memory, across two experiments with Dutch and Estonian participants. Estonian marks a viewer's perspective on an event's result obligatorily via grammatical case on direct object nouns: Objects undergoing a partial/full change in state in an event are marked with partitive/accusative case, respectively. Therefore, we hypothesized increased saliency of object states and event results in Estonian speakers, as compared to speakers of Dutch. Findings show (a) a general cognitive principle of attending carefully to endings of resultative events, implying cognitive saliency of object states in event processing; (b) a language-specific boost on attention and memory of event results under verbal task demands in Estonian speakers. Results are discussed in relation to theories of event cognition, linguistic relativity, and thinking for speaking.