时间语义加工中内隐空间图式的激活机制

本研究采用实验方法考察时间语义理解中内隐空间图式的激活,借此探讨感知运动经验在抽象语义加工中的作用.实验发现,时间语义加工会激活左右空间编码,引起注意力向时空隐喻映射一致的方向转移(左/早,右/晚).过去时间引起注意力向左转移,促进左侧目标的识别,未来时间引起注意力向右转移,促进左侧目标的识别.实验表明,时间语义加工会...

Activation of Implicit Spatial Schema during Semantic Processing of Temporal Words

To testify the role of sensory-perceptual experience in abstract semantic processing, an experiment study was carried out to examine the activation of spatial schema in temporal words understanding. Results showed that temporal words processing activated left-right spatial schema simultaneously and aroused an attentional shift, congruent with the metaphorical mapping in TIME-SPACE metaphor(past/left-future/right). Past word shifted attention to the left and facilitated the detection of left target; future words shifted attention to the right and facilitated the detection of right target. The results provide experimental evidence to the simulation of spatial experience in abstract temporal reasoning, as well as the experimental support to the question of “ symbolic grounding ” of abstract semantics.