When a bank becomes a bank, and a bank is the bank but not the bank: Multistability of homonyms' meaning.

IF 2.4 4区 心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL
Malin Styrnal, Claus-Christian Carbon, Alexander Pastukhov
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Perceptual multistability is well-known and mostly visually demonstrated: Common examples are Necker's cube or Rubin's face-vase that produce qualitatively different percepts continuously oscillating between the solutions despite physically stable stimuli. We lack knowledge about similar phenomena in other domains, for instance in linguistics, where we are faced with homonyms that create multistability of cognitive semantics, differently assigned meanings of identical words. Our participants listened to repeated presentations of homonyms for which two or even three meanings could be assigned, and they reported the dominant meaning perceived at a certain point in time. Results showed that most participants experienced multistability of meaning for homonyms, with semiperiodic changes in dominant meaning similar to multistabity in perception. These findings suggest that multistability is a general property of the brain's neural architecture that resolves ambiguity irrespective of the level of representation.

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当银行成为银行,银行是银行而不是银行:同音异义词意义的多重稳定性。
知觉的多重稳定性是众所周知的,而且大多是通过视觉来证明的:常见的例子是Necker的立方体或Rubin的脸花瓶,它们产生的不同的知觉在不同的解决方案之间不断振荡,尽管有物理上稳定的刺激。我们对其他领域的类似现象缺乏了解,例如在语言学中,我们面临着同音异义,这些同音异义创造了认知语义的多重稳定性,相同的词被赋予了不同的意义。我们的参与者听了重复的同音异义词,这些同音异义词可以被赋予两个甚至三个意义,他们报告了在某个时间点所感知到的主要意义。结果表明,大多数被试都经历了同音异义词意义的多重稳定性,主导意义的半周期性变化与知觉意义的多重稳定性相似。这些发现表明,多稳定性是大脑神经结构的一个普遍特性,无论表征水平如何,它都能解决模糊性。
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I-Perception
I-Perception PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-
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