字体颜色强调对老年人句子理解的影响

The Effect of Font Color Emphasis on Sentence Comprehension among Older Adults

本研究采用资源分配法,通过操纵字体颜色,考察了字体强调对老年人句子理解的影响。结果发现,字体强调消除了老年人与年轻人对词汇水平加工的资源投入差异。字体强调减少了老年人在词汇水平上的资源分配,但是增加了年轻人对词汇水平加工的资源投入。这说明字体强调对两个群体的作用机制不同。另外,相比于词汇水平加工,字体强调对文本基础水平的资源分配没有影响。

By applying the resource allocation approach,this study investigated the effect of font emphasis(ma-nipulated with color of font)on sentence comprehen-sion among older adults.The results showed that font emphasis eliminated the discrepancy of resource in-put in word-level processes between the older and younger adults.Font emphasis decreased the re-sources allocation for the older adults,while in-creased the resources input for the younger adults.Therefore,it suggests the mechanisms underlying font emphasis are different between the two groups.In addition,compared to word-level processing,font emphasis does not affect the resource allocation at the text-base level.