汉字情绪信息对阅读中语音加工的影响

The Impact of Emotional Valence of Chinese Characters on the Phonological Processing in Reading

使用带有情绪信息的汉字作为实验材料,通过押韵判断任务,用两个实验分别考察了汉字阅读过程中积极和消极情绪信息对语音加工的影响,以及汉字频率与情绪价效应之间的交互作用。结果发现:积极和消极的情绪价都能够促进汉字的语音加工,而且积极字与消极字之间没有差异。但情绪信息的促进作用会受到汉字频率的影响。情绪价效应主要出现在低频字上,高频字的语音加工较为自动化,不受情绪价的影响。情绪信息可以随实验材料与任务导向的变化动态地影响认知加工过程。

The present study used the positive, negative and neutral Chinese characters as the stimuli. Participants were asked to perform rhyming decision task in two experiments, which systematically examined how the emotional valence impacts on the phonological processing and the character frequency＇s influence on the impact. The results showed that both positive and negative valence accelerated the phonological processing in reading. There was no difference between positive characters＂ RT and negative one. However, the emotional valence effect was influenced by character＇s frequency. The emotional information significantly impacted on the low frequency characters＂ processing, but not so on high frequency ones. Compared to low frequency characters, high frequency characters＂ processing was more automatically, consequently and less influenced by other information. The results suggested that emotional information can dynamically affect the cognitive process with different experimental material and task-o- riented.