The irrelevant speech effect (ISE) refers to the impairment of visual information processing by background speech. Prior research on the ISE has focused on short-term memory for visually presented word lists. The present research extends this work by using measurements of eye movements to examine effects of irrelevant background speech during Chinese reading. This enabled an examination of the ISE for a language in which access to semantic representations is not strongly mediated by phonology. Participants read sentences while exposed to meaningful irrelevant speech, meaningless speech (scrambled meaningful speech) or silence. A target word of high or low lexical frequency was embedded in each sentence. The results show that meaningful, but not meaningless, background speech produced increased re-reading. In addition, the appearance of a normal word frequency effect, characterised by longer fixation times on low- compared to high-frequency words, was delayed when meaningful or meaningless speech was present in the background. These findings show that irrelevant background speech can disrupt normal processes of reading comprehension and, in addition, that background noise can interfere with the early processing of words. The findings add to evidence showing that normal reading processes can be disrupted by environmental noise such as irrelevant background speech.

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无关语音效应 (ISE) 是指背景语音对视觉信息处理的损害。先前对ISE的研究集中在视觉呈现的单词列表的短期记忆上。本研究通过使用眼动测量来检查中文阅读过程中无关背景语音的影响,从而扩展了这项工作。这使得能够检查ISE中的一种语言,在该语言中,对语义表示的访问不是由语音学强烈介导的。参与者阅读句子,同时暴露于有意义的无关演讲,无意义的演讲 (加扰的有意义演讲) 或沉默。每个句子中都嵌入了词频高低的目标词。结果表明,有意义但并非毫无意义的背景演讲产生了更多的重读。此外,当背景中存在有意义或无意义的语音时,正常词频效果的出现会延迟,其特征是低频率单词的固定时间比高频率单词长。这些发现表明,无关的背景语音会破坏正常的阅读理解过程,此外,背景噪声还会干扰单词的早期处理。研究结果增加了证据,表明正常的阅读过程可能会被环境噪声 (例如不相关的背景语音) 破坏。

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