大脑会根据说话者是否常说反常话,动态调整理解语言的方式。
Probabilistic adaptation of language comprehension for individual speakers: evidence from neural oscillations
- 通过脑电波分析发现,听众会基于说话者说反常话的频率,概率性调整理解策略。
- 高基率下反常话语引发高β波增强,低基率下则引发θ波减弱,且与开放性人格相关。
- 揭示了通用型和个体化两种社会认知机制如何协同影响语言理解。
听众会依据对说话者的心理表征调整语言理解,但这些表征如何更新尚不明确。本研究探究听众是否基于说话者说出反刻板印象陈述的频率,概率性地调整理解。在两项脑电实验中,参与者聆听说话者说出符合或违反刻板印象的陈述,反常陈述的基础概率被操控。实验1显示,在低基础概率条件下,反常陈述导致高β(21–30 Hz)和θ(4–6 Hz)振荡功率下降;而在高基础概率条件下则相反。θ波反应与听者开放性特质相关:内向者对反常陈述更易出现θ波上升,外向者则多见θ波下降。实验2中,通过非目标说话者操控反常概率,仅高β效应持续存在。结果表明存在两种潜在机制:由高β波指示的通用性机制,用于调节对违反社会刻板印象话语的整体预期;由θ波指示的个体特定机制,用于更新对具体说话者的详细心理模型。这些发现揭示了语言处理如何与社会认知相互作用。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Listeners adapt language comprehension based on their mental representations of speakers, but how these representations are updated remains unclear. We investigated whether listeners probabilistically adapt comprehension based on the frequency of speakers making stereotype-incongruent statements. In two EEG experiments, participants heard speakers make stereotype-congruent or incongruent statements, with incongruency base rate manipulated. In Experiment 1, stereotype-incongruent statements decreased high-beta (21-30 Hz) and theta (4-6 Hz) oscillatory power in the low base rate condition but increased it in the high base rate condition. The theta effect varied with listeners' openness trait: less open-minded participants tended to show theta increases to stereotype incongruencies, while more open-minded participants tended to show theta decreases. In Experiment 2, we dissociated incongruency base rate from the target speaker by manipulating it using a non-target speaker and found that only the high-beta effect persisted. Our findings reveal two potential mechanisms: a speaker-general mechanism (indicated by high-beta oscillations) that adjusts overall expectations about hearing statements that violate social stereotypes, and a speaker-specific mechanism (indicated by theta oscillations) that updates a more detailed mental model specifically about an individual speaker. These findings provide evidence for how language processing interacts with social cognition.
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