题目：Auditory Perceptual Simulation (APS): Effects on language processing and comprehension

讲座人：Peiyun Zhou

日期：2016年12月15日（周四）

时间：14:00-16:00

地点：虹口校区图书馆604室

主办：语言研究院

主持人：吴芙芸

摘要：Auditory perceptual simulation (APS) during silent reading refers to situations in which the reader actively simulates the voice of a character or other person depicted in a text. In three eye-tracking studies and one event-related potentials (ERPs) study, APS effects were investigated as people read utterances attributed to a native English speaker, a non-native English speaker, or no speaker at all. APS effects were measured via online eye movements or ERPs, and offline comprehension probes. Results demonstrated that inducing APS during silent reading resulted in observable differences in reading speed when readers simulated the speech of faster compared to slower speakers, and compared to silent reading without APS among native English speakers and bilingual speakers. APS of both native speech and non-native speech increased native English speakers’ reading speed, facilitated deeper, less good-enough, sentence processing, and improved comprehension compared to normal silent reading. When readers engage in APS during silent reading, they had smaller ERP amplitudes than normal silent reading, suggesting that APS requires extra attention and effort. The effects of APS on language processing and comprehension as well as its mechanism will be discussed.

简介：Dr. Peiyun Zhou is a research fellow in the Department of Educational Psychology at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on native and bilingual speakers' language processing and comprehension. She is also interested in bilinguals' translation and language acquisition. By using eye-tracking, event-related potentials (ERPs), and behavioral measures, she has investigated how auditory perceptual simulation of different speakers affects readers' sentence processing and comprehension. Peiyun's work has been funded by the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and the Confucius Institute. She is a recipient of the Beckman Institute Graduate Fellowship, UIUC University Fellowship, Raymond Kulhavy Memorial Scholarship, William Chandler Bagley Scholarship, and the best paper award at the Psychonomic Society Conference (2016).