为什么有时候看一个汉字时间长了,会觉得不认识这个字了呢?不仅是汉字,英语等其他语言的使用者也会出现“一个词看久了就认不出”的现象。甚至不仅在语言中,就连一张熟人的照片、一个熟悉的地点,看久了之后都有可能突然觉得陌生起来。这个现象在西方被叫做JamaisVu。针对它的研究早在20世纪60年代就已开展。一些学者用“语义饱和”(Semantic satiation)来解释它。他们认为,神经系统有一个固有特点:如果短时 Why sometimes do you not recognize this character when you look at a Chinese character? Not only do users of other languages, such as Chinese characters and English, also appear “when a word is not recognized for a long time”. Not only in the language, but even an acquaintance’s photograph, a familiar place, may suddenly feel unfamiliar after a long time. This phenomenon is called JamaisVu in the West. Research on it has been carried out since the 1960s. Some scholars use “Semantic satiation” to explain it. They think that the nervous system has an inherent characteristic: if short