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George, Tim; Wiley, Jennifer – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
In order for a person to comprehend metaphoric expressions, do metaphor-irrelevant aspects of literal information need to be inhibited? Previous research using sentence-verification paradigms has found that literal associates take longer to process after reading metaphorical sentences; however, it is problematic to infer inhibition from this…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Figurative Language, Inhibition, Experiments
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Lowder, Matthew W.; Gordon, Peter C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Two eye-tracking experiments examined the effects of sentence structure on the processing of complement coercion, in which an event-selecting verb combines with a complement that represents an entity (e.g., "began the memo"). Previous work has demonstrated that these expressions impose a processing cost, which has been attributed to the…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Experiments, Sentence Structure, Verbs
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Lyle, Keith B.; Hanaver-Torrez, Shelley D.; Hacklander, Ryan P.; Edlin, James M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012
Research has shown that consistently right-handed individuals have poorer memory than do inconsistently right- or left-handed individuals under baseline conditions but more reliably exhibit enhanced memory retrieval after making a series of saccadic eye movements. From this it could be that consistent versus inconsistent handedness, regardless of…
Descriptors: Handedness, Eye Movements, Figurative Language, Individual Differences
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Huang, Yi Ting; Gordon, Peter C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
How does prior context influence lexical and discourse-level processing during real-time language comprehension? Experiment 1 examined whether the referential ambiguity introduced by a repeated, anaphoric expression had an immediate or delayed effect on lexical and discourse processing, using an eye-tracking-while-reading task. Eye movements…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Eye Movements, Figurative Language, Human Body
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White, Katherine K.; Abrams, Lise; McWhite, Cullen B.; Hagler, Heather L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
In this experiment, syntactic constraints on the retrieval of orthography were investigated using homophones embedded in sentence contexts. Participants typed auditorily presented sentences that included a contextually appropriate homophone that either shared part of speech with its homophone competitor (i.e., was syntactically unambiguous) or had…
Descriptors: Sentences, Figurative Language, Language Processing, Interference (Language)
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Millotte, Severine; Rene, Alice; Wales, Roger; Christophe, Anne – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
Two experiments tested whether phonological phrase boundaries constrain online syntactic analysis in French. Pairs of homophones belonging to different syntactic categories (verb and adjective) were used to create sentences with a local syntactic ambiguity (e.g., [le petit chien "mort"], in English, the "dead" little dog, vs.…
Descriptors: Sentences, Form Classes (Languages), Figurative Language, Language Acquisition
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Madden, Carol J.; Zwaan, Rolf A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
In 2 experiments, the authors investigated the ability of high- and low-span comprehenders to construe subtle shades of meaning through perceptual representation. High- and low-span comprehenders responded to pictures that either matched or mismatched a target object's shape as implied by the preceding sentence context. At 750 ms after hearing the…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Sentences, Reading Comprehension, Experiments