Field articulation and linguistic structures.
The relation of field articulation to sensitivity to linguistic structures was explored. Subjects (23 males and 23 females) were given the rod-and-frame test and then made true-false judgments of sentences varying in grammatical and semantic complexity. While increased complexity did increase the difficulty of true-false judgments of sentences, the latencies of these judgments were unrelated to the scores on the rod-and-frame test. These results were discussed in terms of the generality of previous studies reporting a relationship between field articulation and linguistic abilities.
D005260:Female; D005364:Field Dependence-Independence; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011930:Reaction Time; D012660:Semantics; D012737:Sex Factors