Object Images And The Corresponding Chinese Name Implied Characterization Of Spatial Location Differences

Representation are any sign or symbols which refer to things with the absence of physical. Correctly rePresenting information is the prerequisite of normal life and Production. Representation can be devided into external representation (text and graphics, etc.) and the internal representation (propositions and imagery,etc.) The problem that which internal representation that words and pictures activate was the most controversial issue in cognitive psychology. proposition theoretica kept the view that the words and graphics were represented by propositions; But Dual Coding theory maintained that the words and graphics correspond to the representation of propositions and imagery resPectively. In recent years, under the influence of embodied cognition, Barsalou firstly proposed a new representation form—perceptual symbol. This representation form had been confirmed by a large number of language understanding tasks, but the tasks taken graphics as material did not confirmed the activation of perceptual symbols. These theories and most study only emphasizes one kind of representation. Michelle Verges started her study at imPlicitly sPatial location. In her research, she presented words or pictures in different locations in order to discuss if the different present position would affect the subsequent perception of object to show PercePtual conflict effects. But she still did not conduct a depth study to make sure whether all the differert kinds of rePresentation would be activated at different rePresentation time conditions.We used Michelle Verges's research paradigm to inspect How different kinds of representation activated and their features. Our experimental research was composed of three experiments, all of which were arranged with within-subject design and aimed to explore the difference between words and pictures in the representation of implicit Spatial position. The first experiment was conducted to examine whether Chinese words and pictures represent implicit sPatial position and the difference between those two processing; the second experiment investigated the time-course in words and pictures' representation of implicit spatial position; the last experiment inspected if the priming effect of words and pictures was different in two vision at different SOA condition.The results basicly suported the following hypothesis:1. objects pictures and Chinese words both can represented implicit spatial Position when they were processed. However, there time-course were different.2. In the words condition, interference effects occur on 250ms, and was declining a little on 500ms. The inhibition of return occurred on 700ms and regressed until more then 1000ms which caused the hancement of interference effects.3. Words and pictures for the representation of implicit Spatial position were different. Words activated such representation earlier than Pictures, and have a longer duration. This result verified Paivio's dual coding theory.4. The information of implicit Spatial position processed in the left vision first.5. AS the object words in the Present experiments could not predict the location of the target, our results indicate that orienting from object words is reflexive. And given the ubiquity of object words, these results indicate that reflexive orienting from symbolic cues is more general than previously known.