Motion verbs and memory for motion events.
Motion verbs and memory for motion events.
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运动动词和运动事件的记忆。
DOI：
10.1080/02643294.2019.1685480
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Papafragou,Anna
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作者：
Skordos,Dimitrios;Bunger,Ann;Richards,Catherine;Selimis,Stathis;Trueswell,John;Papafragou,Anna
人们认为语言通过提供编码视觉刺激的附加媒介来影响记忆。鉴于自然语言不同，跨语言差异可能会影响记忆过程。我们研究了英语使用者中运动动词对运动事件记忆的作用，英语优先编码运动动词的方式（例如，驾驶），以及希腊语，则倾向于编码动词中的运动路径（例如，进入）。参与者观看了一系列运动事件，随后我们评估了他们对原始事件的路径和方式的记忆。当参与者安静地观看事件时，特定语言的偏见不会对记忆产生影响；说英语和希腊语的人对路径的记忆比对动作方式的记忆要好。此外，即使有动作动词（无论参与者产生或听到），无论参与者使用何种语言，它们都会对记忆产生类似的影响：路径动词会减弱对动作方式的记忆，但相反的情况却不会发生。我们得出的结论是，明显的语言会影响运动记忆，但这些影响与观众表示运动事件时潜在的、共同的偏见相互作用。
Language is assumed to affect memory by offering an additional medium of encoding visual stimuli. Given that natural languages differ, cross-linguistic differences might impact memory processes. We investigate the role of motion verbs on memory for motion events in speakers of English, which preferentially encodesmannerin motion verbs (e.g.,driving), and Greek, which tends to encodepathof motion in verbs (e.g.,entering). Participants viewed a series of motion events and we later assessed their memory of the path and manner of the original events. There were no effects of language-specific biases on memory when participants watched events in silence; both English and Greek speakers remembered paths better than manners of motion. Moreover, even when motion verbs were available (either produced by or heard by the participants), they affected memory similarly regardless of the participants’ language: path verbs attenuated memory for manners of motion, but the reverse did not occur. We conclude that overt language affects motion memory, but these effects interact with underlying, shared biases in how viewers represent motion events.