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Traxler, Matthew J.; Tooley, Kristen M.; Pickering, Martin J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Syntactic priming occurs when structural information from one sentence influences processing of a subsequently encountered sentence (Bock, 1986; Ledoux et al., 2007). This article reports 2 eye-tracking experiments investigating the effects of a prime sentence on the processing of a target sentence that shared aspects of syntactic form. The…
Descriptors: Syntax, Priming, Sentence Structure, Reading Comprehension
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Angele, Bernhard; Laishley, Abby E.; Rayner, Keith; Liversedge, Simon P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
In a previous gaze-contingent boundary experiment, Angele and Rayner (2013) found that readers are likely to skip a word that appears to be the definite article "the" even when syntactic constraints do not allow for articles to occur in that position. In the present study, we investigated whether the word frequency of the preview of a…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Reading Processes, Word Recognition, Word Frequency
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Radakovic, Davorka; Herceg, Dorde – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2013
Dynamic geometry software (DGS) is often used for development of interactive teaching materials in many subjects, not only mathematics. These interactive materials can contain hundreds of elements in order to represent complex objects, and script programs to control their behavior. We propose an approach for creating, importing and using…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Mathematics Instruction, Instructional Materials, Geometry