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Intramodal and crolss‐modal verbal communication of forms: A comparison with intraidividual matching
Author(s) -
MOLANDER BO
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1983.tb00484.x
Subject(s) - psychology , modality (human–computer interaction) , perception , matching (statistics) , nonverbal communication , modal , cognitive psychology , communication , visual perception , artificial intelligence , computer science , mathematics , statistics , chemistry , neuroscience , polymer chemistry
In two experiments interindividual communication of forms in intramodal (visual‐visual, tactual‐tactual) and cross‐modal (visual‐tactual, tactual‐visual) conditions were compared with the corresponding conditions in intraindividual matching. In the first experiment speakers verbally described three‐dimensionakl objects to listeners, who, on the basis of the descriptions, judged the stimuli presented in other modality to be “same” or “different”. The descriptions produced in this experiment were transcribed and use again in the second experiment. In this experiment the listeners judged stimuli on the basis of the descriptions, judged the stimuli on the basis of descriptions originally meant for comparisons in a different modality. In both experiments the communication phase was followed by individual matching. The results are interpreted as showing:first, that verbal communication efficiently reflects the performance in intraindividual matching. Secondly, intramodal descriptions were found to be less useful than cross‐modal descriptions in a modality other than the one in which the descriptions were produced. Contrary ot earlier findings there was no indication of false negative errors beign associated with verbalizatio. The verbal‐perceptual parallellism suggested by these results is discussed.