ABSTRACT

It has been argued that people construct situation models during text reception and that these are analogous, multimodal representations of text grounded in perception and action. On the one hand, abundant evidence has been generated that recipients perceptually simulate features of the situation described in the text. On the other hand, findings indicating that pictures facilitate situation model construction have been explained by assuming a causal link between picture processing, perceptual simulation, and situation model construction. Using a picture verification task, we tested whether 5- to 11 year-old children and adults perceptually simulate vertical object movements during reception of narrative text and whether the presence or absence of pictures during text presentation makes a difference. Our results suggest that both children and adults perceptually simulate vertical object movements. In our work, perceptual simulation was not influenced by pictures, so there is no evidence that it mediates the facilitating effect of pictures on situation model construction.

摘要

有人争辩说，人们在文本接收过程中构造了情境模型，并且这些模型是基于感知和行动的类似的，多模式的文本表示形式。一方面，已经产生了大量证据，表明接受者在感知上模拟了文本中描述的情况的特征。另一方面，已经通过假设图片处理，感知模拟和状况模型构建之间的因果关系解释了表明图片有助于状况模型构建的发现。通过使用图片验证任务，我们测试了5到11岁的儿童和成人在接收叙述性文本期间是否在感知上模拟垂直物体的运动，以及在文本演示过程中是否存在图片会产生影响。我们的结果表明，儿童和成人都在感知上模拟了垂直物体的运动。在我们的工作中，知觉模拟不受图片的影响，因此没有证据表明它可以调解图片对情境模型构建的促进作用。