The effect of suppressing subvocal speech on text processing during auditory and visual presentation
The effect of suppressing subvocal speech on text processing during auditory and visual presentation
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听觉和视觉呈现过程中抑制默声语音对文本处理的影响
DOI:
10.4992/psycholres1954.27.41
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发表时间:
1985
影响因子:
0.8
通讯作者:
Machiko Sannomiya
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作者:
Machiko Sannomiya
In the previous research (Sannomiya, 1984), the relation between presentation modality and comprehension ability of subjects in text processing was examined. As a result, the modality effect was found for the poor comprehenders (3rd graders of a primary school) but not for the good comprehenders (6th graders of a primary school). That is, test performance after presentation of the text indicated auditory superiority over visual presentation in the case of the poor comprehenders. This interaction of modality by comprehension ability is compatible with the fi nding of modality by text difficulty (Sannomiya, 1982a, 1982b). In the previous experiment, the given text was a difficult one for the poor comprehenders, and was an easy one for the good comprehenders. As for the modality by diffi culty interaction including the interaction of modality by comprehension ability, a consistent explanation has been hypothesized: Visually presented texts undergo the translation into an acoustic form. Therefore the text processing in the visual condition tends to be insufficient because of the additional process of translation when the given text is difficult for the subject and needs much time for processing. The translation in the visual condition is considered to take the form of subvocalization, because overt vocalization was forbidden in the previous experiment. It seems, therefore, that for the good cornprehenders subvocal speech functioned well in the visual condition so that the text processing in that condition could be as good as in the auditory condition. On the other hand, for the poor comprehenders, the subvocal speech would not function sufficiently. We can confirm this assumption by suppressing the subvocal speech of good comprehenders (6th graders) for whom there will be no modality difference. If the subvocalization during visual presentation effectively 1 The author wishes to thank Professor Shigeru