Consensus on the extent to which cross-linguistic differences affect event cognition is currently absent. This is partly because cognitive influences of language have rarely been examined within speakers of different languages in tasks that manipulate the level of visual processing. This study presents a novel combination of a high-level approach upregulating the involvement of language, namely self-paced sentence-video verification, and a low-level visual detection method without language use, namely breaking continuous flash suppression (b-CFS) (Yang et al., 2014). The results point to cross-linguistic effects on event cognition by revealing variations in visual processing patterns of manner and path by English versus Mandarin Chinese speakers. Language specificity was found on both levels of processing. An asymmetry in response speed across tasks highlights an important difference between facilitation of detecting contrasts when recruitment of verbal labels is automatic, versus facilitation of verifying correspondences when labels are overt.

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匹配还是移动？运动事件的高级和低级视觉处理的不对称性

目前，跨语言差异对事件认知的影响程度尚未达成共识。部分原因是，在操纵视觉处理水平的任务中，很少在不同语言的使用者中检查语言的认知影响。这项研究提出了一种新颖的组合，将一种上调语言参与的高级方法（即自定进度的句子视频验证）与一种不使用语言的低级视觉检测方法（即打破连续闪光抑制（b-CFS））相结合。杨等人，2014）。研究结果揭示了说英语的人与说汉语的人在方式和路径的视觉处理模式上的差异，指出了跨语言对事件认知的影响。在两个处理级别上都发现了语言特异性。