物語理解を支える知覚・運動処理- -擬似自伝的記憶モデルの試み--

Abstract

Recently, many researchers have reported evidence that perceptual and/or motor activities are involved in language processing. These perceptual and motor involvements are found across a wide range of language-processing activities, including the comprehension of words, sentences, short text, and long text. This body of research reveals strong relationships between language and perceptual and motor activities, and these relationships suggest an essential element of human language processing. However. virtually no research has addressed this issue with regard to the comprehension of long story texts. One reason for the paucity of research in this area may be that few theories or models have focused on the complex and often nebulous mental representations generated during the reading and comprehension of long texts. In this paper, we first review research addressing perceptual and motor processes in relation to multiple levels of language. Next, we discuss the nature of the questions raised by this work and suggestions for future research directions, especially with regard to long story texts, focusing on findings from autobiographical memory research. Finally, we propose a simulated-autobiographical memory model for long story comprehension.