采用移动窗口技术和自我报告法探讨了文本阅读中协凋性整合发生的具体机制。被试为华南师范大学本科生114名。实验1通过分析不同条件下目标句的阅读时间,探讨当前信息跟先前信息只有语义相关上的局部不一致但没有事件相关时能否发生协调性整合。实验2通过分析不同条件下探测词的反应时间探讨文本阅读过程中单纯语义相关没有事件相关时,目标句阅读是否会自动激活跟其有关的背景信息。实验3通过分析不同条件下目标句的阅读时间和被试的自我报告指标,探讨协调性整合是否是一种自动化的过程,即探讨被试在文本阅读过程中能否意识到这种信息整合方式。总的实验结果表明,文本阅读中当前信息跟先前信息有语义相关时可以引发信息激活,但只有当前信息跟先前信息有事件相关时才会发生信息整合;另外,协调性整合是一种自动化的过程,读者在文本阅读过程中不能意识到这种信息整合方式的发生。
Text reading is one of the most complex and unique cognitive activities of human and is an important way of getting information and knowledge. The mechanism of information processing in text reading has been a hot topic in experimental psychology, and several models have been proposed. According to the memory-based text processing view, readers activate the previous information and integrate it with the current information by resonance in text reading. If the previous information has local-incoherence with the current information, coordinating integration could then be occurred. The key issue involves the mechanism of the coordinating integration in text reading. In our view, the coordinating integration could occur only when the previous information has event-relatedness with the current information. Furthermore, coordinating integration is hypothesized to be an automatic process so that readers are not aware of the integration process during their reading The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the mechanism of the coordinating integration in text reading. Three experiments were conducted using a self-paced, line-by-line, reading paradigm. In experiment 1,30 university students were asked to read 12 narrative passages. The independent variable involves the relationship between the elaboration on a characteristic of the first protagonist and two subsequent target action respectively carried out by two protagonists. The independent variable had two levels-consistent version and qualified version. The dependent variable were the reading times of the first target sentence describing the actions of the second protagonist and the second target sentence describing the actions of the first protagonist. In experiment 2, 28 university students were asked to read 12 narrative passages and to judge whether a probe word appeared in the previous section of the text. The relationship between the elaboration on a characteristic of the first protagonist and subsequent target action carried out by the second pr