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Swets, Benjamin; Kurby, Christopher A. – Cognitive Science, 2016
When we read narrative texts such as novels and newspaper articles, we segment information presented in such texts into discrete events, with distinct boundaries between those events. But do our eyes reflect this event structure while reading? This study examines whether eye movements during the reading of discourse reveal how readers respond…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Reading Processes, Experiments, Reading Rate
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Upala, M. Afzal; Gonce, Lauren O.; Tweney, Ryan D.; Slone, D. Jason – Cognitive Science, 2007
A number of anthropologists have argued that religious concepts are minimally counterintuitive and that this gives them mnemic advantages. This paper addresses the question of why people have the memory architecture that results in such concepts being more memorable than other types of concepts by pointing out the benefits of a memory structure…
Descriptors: Memory, Context Effect, Comprehension, Cognitive Structures
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Zacks, Jeffrey M. – Cognitive Science, 2004
In order to understand ongoing activity, observers segment it into meaningful temporal parts. Segmentation can be based on bottom-up processing of distinctive sensory characteristics, such as movement features. Segmentation may also be affected by top-down effects of knowledge structures, including information about actors' intentions. Three…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Motion, Intention, Experiments