How Spatial Memory is Affected by Spatial Terms: On Bilingual Native Chinese Speakers' Recognition of Visual Information

空間用語如何影響空間記憶：以中文為母語之中英雙語者視覺空間訊息的再認

10.6129/CJP.2006.4802.02

林慧麗(Hui-Li Lin)

空間記憶 ； 空間用語 ； 作業難度 ； 雙語 ； spatial memory ； spatial terms ； task difficulty ； bilingualism

中華心理學刊

48卷2期（2006 / 06 / 01）

139 - 150

英文

本研究旨在檢驗不同作業難度下，空間用語如何影響空間記憶。本研究共有兩個實驗，測量的是中英雙語人士的空間記憶表現。兩個實驗中，實驗組的受試者皆在空間記憶的測驗之前給予包含中文或英文空間用語的提示句。實驗一以改變記憶圖片顯示時間長度的方式操弄作業難度。實驗二以改變記憶圖片內容量的方式操弄作業難度。比較各實驗組與其控制組之間在不同作業難度的情況下非語言記憶表現的差異，觀察到提示語言與作業難度之間交叉的交互作用效果。本文最後根據研究發現，對於將來研究方向提出數點建議。

The present study aimed to examine how spatial terms affect spatial memory under various degrees of task difficulty. Two experiments were conducted. Chinese-English bilingual subjects' performance of spatial memory was measured. In both experiments, subjects were given cues of English or Chinese spatial terms before they were asked to remember a picture. In Exp.1, task difficulty was manipulated by changing the duration of exposure to the picture. In Exp.2, task difficulty was manipulated by changing the amount of contents to be remembered. By comparing the performance between the cued groups and the control groups under different levels of task difficulty, a crossover interaction effect between language and task difficulty on the non-linguistic spatial memory was observed. Implications for future studies are suggested accordingly.

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