Psychological Development and Education ›› 2025, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (4): 457-464.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2025.04.01

   

A Comparative Study of Form-sound Integration between School-aged Children and Adults: The Mutual Influence of Visual Form and Phonetic Information

WANG Yuxuan1,2, LIU Menglian3, YANG Yinghui4, BI Hongyan1,2   

  1. 1. CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101;
    2. Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049;
    3. Department of Humanities Management, Hebei University of Chinese Medicine, Shijiazhuang 050200;
    4. China Welfare Institute Development Research Center, Shanghai 200031
  • Published:2025-07-12

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Abstract: This study employed a lexical decision task to investigate the differences between school-aged children and adults in the mutual influence between visual form processing and phonetic processing during form-sound integration. The results showed: (1) Regarding the influence of phonetic information on visual form processing, incongruent phonetic information interfered with visual form processing in children, while congruent phonetic information facilitated visual form processing in adults; (2) Regarding the influence of visual forms on phonetic processing, congruent visual forms facilitated phonetic processing in both children and adults, with a greater facilitating effect on phonetic processing in adults, while incongruent visual forms interfered with phonetic processing in both children and adults. This study reveals the differences in form-sound integration abilities between school-aged children and adults from two perspectives, that is, the influence of phonetic information on visual form processing and the influence of visual forms on phonetic processing.

Key words: visual form, phonetic information, form-sound integration, lexical decision task, children

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  • B844
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