The embodied view of semantic processing holds that readers achieve reading comprehension through mental simulation of the objects and events described in the narrative. However, it remains unclear whether and how the encoding of linguistic factors in narrative descriptions impacts narrative semantic processing. This study aims to explore this issue under the narrative context with and without perspective shift, which is an important and common linguistic factor in narratives. A sentence-picture verification paradigm combined with eye-tracking measures was used to explore the issue. The results showed that (1) the inter-role perspective shift made the participants’ to evenly allocate their first fixation to different elements in the scene following the new perspective; (2) the internal–external perspective shift increased the participants’ total fixation count when they read the sentence with the perspective shift; (3) the scene detail depicted in the picture did not influence the process of narrative semantic processing. These results suggest that perspective shift can disrupt the coherence of situation model and increase the cognitive load of readers during reading. Moreover, scene detail could not be constructed by readers in natural narrative reading.

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叙事视角转换和场景细节对叙事语义加工的影响

语义加工的具身观认为，读者通过对叙述中所描述的物体和事件进行心理模拟来实现阅读理解。然而，目前尚不清楚叙事描述中语言因素的编码是否以及如何影响叙事语义处理。本研究旨在探讨有或无视角转换的叙事语境下的这一问题，视角转换是叙事中重要且常见的语言因素。使用句子-图片验证范式与眼动追踪措施相结合来探索这个问题。结果表明：（1）角色间视角转移使得参与者在新视角下将第一注视均匀地分配到场景中的不同元素；（2）内部-外部视角转换增加了参与者在阅读具有视角转换的句子时的总注视次数；(3)画面中描绘的场景细节不影响叙事语义加工过程。这些结果表明，视角转换会破坏情境模型的连贯性，并增加读者在阅读过程中的认知负荷。此外，读者在自然的叙事阅读中无法构建场景细节。