ABSTRACT

Much previous research has investigated the effect of domain-general memory processes on production and comprehension in conversation. In this paper, we present a paradigm in which common ground targets are kept consistent between a participant and two different speakers, and demonstrate a speaker effect that draws participants’ attention away from the common ground target in Experiment 1. Further, we hypothesise that one important factor that promotes speaker identity as a cue for memory processes is that speakers are in conversational partners’ shared attention at the memory coding phase. In Experiments 2 and 3, we demonstrate a non-speaker cue can give rise to a memory-based interference effect when the relevant contextual information is in shared attention but not when it is not. Our results provide an important insight into the interplay of domain-general memory mechanisms and domain specific biases for shared attention.

摘要

许多先前的研究调查了领域一般记忆过程对对话中的产生和理解的影响。在本文中，我们提出了一个范式，在该范式中，参与者和两个不同的说话者之间的共同目标保持一致，并展示了一种说话者效应，该效应将参与者的注意力从实验 1 中的共同目标上转移开。此外，我们假设一个促进说话者身份作为记忆过程线索的重要因素是说话者在记忆编码阶段处于对话伙伴的共同关注中。在实验 2 和 3 中，我们证明了当相关上下文信息处于共享关注状态时，非说话者提示可以引起基于记忆的干扰效应，但如果不是，则不会。