Letter recognition of Germans and Chinese - similarities in attention allocation and differences in encoding

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	Letter recognition of Germans and Chinese - similarities in attention allocation and differences in encoding
	Lass, U ; Yang, YF; Fang, YQ ; Yan, S ; Sun, P ; Chen, GP ; Becker, D ; Luer, G
摘要	Germans and Chinese participated in letter recognition experiments based on the Sperling paradigm. They were instructed to report as many items as possible from a briefly exposed two-row matrix of letters from the Latin alphabet. In Experiment 1, the Germans performed better than the Chinese. In addition, a position effect was found in that participants correctly reported more letters from the first row than from the second row. In Experiment 2, the position effect was replicated even though the response mode prompted participants to report items from the bottom row first. In Experiment 3, the instruction as to how to allocate attention influenced the position effect. The performance lead of the Germans, as compared to the Chinese, was independent of these instructions. It is hypothesized that reading habits have influenced the allocation of attention and that language-specific encoding of the letters caused the differences in performance.; Germans and Chinese participated in letter recognition experiments based on the Sperling paradigm. They were instructed to report as many items as possible from a briefly exposed two-row matrix of letters from the Latin alphabet. In Experiment 1, the Germans performed better than the Chinese. In addition, a position effect was found in that participants correctly reported more letters from the first row than from the second row. In Experiment 2, the position effect was replicated even though the response mode prompted participants to report items from the bottom row first. In Experiment 3, the instruction as to how to allocate attention influenced the position effect. The performance lead of the Germans, as compared to the Chinese, was independent of these instructions. It is hypothesized that reading habits have influenced the allocation of attention and that language-specific encoding of the letters caused the differences in performance.
关键词	attention letter recognition object encoding visual sensory memory
学科领域	认知心理学
	2003
语种	英语
发表期刊	ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PSYCHOLOGIE
ISSN	0044-3409
卷号	211 期号:1 页码:26-37
期刊论文类型	Article
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000182620500004
引用统计	被引频次：3[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/5527
专题	中国科学院心理研究所回溯数据库(1956-2010)
作者单位	1.Univ Gottingen, Georg Elias Muller Inst Psychol, D-37073 Gottingen, Germany 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.E China Normal Univ, Dept Psychol, Shanghai, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lass, U,Yang, YF,Fang, YQ,et al. Letter recognition of Germans and Chinese - similarities in attention allocation and differences in encoding[J]. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PSYCHOLOGIE,2003,211(1):26-37.
APA	Lass, U.,Yang, YF.,Fang, YQ.,Yan, S.,Sun, P.,...&Luer, G.(2003).Letter recognition of Germans and Chinese - similarities in attention allocation and differences in encoding.ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PSYCHOLOGIE,211(1),26-37.
MLA	Lass, U,et al."Letter recognition of Germans and Chinese - similarities in attention allocation and differences in encoding".ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PSYCHOLOGIE 211.1(2003):26-37.