Objective When English-speaking people listen to the Deutsch ＂high-low＂ word illusion, they report hearing English words. Whether Chinese-speaking people report Chinese words when listening to the illusion, or wheth...Objective When English-speaking people listen to the Deutsch ＂high-low＂ word illusion, they report hearing English words. Whether Chinese-speaking people report Chinese words when listening to the illusion, or whether any reported words might be correlated with personality traits as previous investigations have demonstrated for listening to music in other cultures, is open to question. The present study aimed to address this. Methods A total of 308 right-handed, healthy volunteers （177 women and 131 men） were given the illusion test and asked to answer the Zuckerman-Kuhlman personality questionnaire （ZKPQ）. Their depressive tendency was measured by the Plutchik-van Praag depression inventory （PVP）. Results There was no gender effect regarding either the PVP score or the number of reported Chinese words from the illusion. Women scored higher on ZKPQ neuroticism-anxiety than men. The number of meaningful Chinese words reported was correlated with the ZKPQ impulsive sensation-seeking, aggression-hostility, and activity scores. Some words reported by participants who scored higher on these three traits were related in meaning to those scales. Conclusion Our preliminary results suggest that when Chinese-speaking people listen to the Deutsch ＂high-low＂ word illusion, they might use personality-related, specific cognitive schemata.展开更多
基金supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30971042)the Innovative Research Team for Translational Neuropsychiatric Medicine, Zhejiang Province (2011R50049)the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University,Chinese Ministry of Education (IRT1038)
文摘Objective When English-speaking people listen to the Deutsch ＂high-low＂ word illusion, they report hearing English words. Whether Chinese-speaking people report Chinese words when listening to the illusion, or whether any reported words might be correlated with personality traits as previous investigations have demonstrated for listening to music in other cultures, is open to question. The present study aimed to address this. Methods A total of 308 right-handed, healthy volunteers （177 women and 131 men） were given the illusion test and asked to answer the Zuckerman-Kuhlman personality questionnaire （ZKPQ）. Their depressive tendency was measured by the Plutchik-van Praag depression inventory （PVP）. Results There was no gender effect regarding either the PVP score or the number of reported Chinese words from the illusion. Women scored higher on ZKPQ neuroticism-anxiety than men. The number of meaningful Chinese words reported was correlated with the ZKPQ impulsive sensation-seeking, aggression-hostility, and activity scores. Some words reported by participants who scored higher on these three traits were related in meaning to those scales. Conclusion Our preliminary results suggest that when Chinese-speaking people listen to the Deutsch ＂high-low＂ word illusion, they might use personality-related, specific cognitive schemata.
