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Braasch, Jason L. G.; McCabe, Rebecca M.; Daniel, Frances – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
The current experiments systematically examined semantic content integration as a mechanism for explaining source inattention and forgetting when reading-to-remember multiple texts. For all 3 experiments, degree of semantic overlap was manipulated amongst messages provided by various information sources. In Experiment 1, readers' source…
Descriptors: Memory, Experiments, Semantics, Recall (Psychology)
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Yang, Jinmian; Wang, Suiping; Tong, Xiuhong; Rayner, Keith – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
The boundary paradigm (Rayner, 1975) was used to examine whether high level information affects preview benefit during Chinese reading. In two experiments, readers read sentences with a 1-character target word while their eye movements were monitored. In Experiment 1, the semantic relatedness between the target word and the preview word was…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Eye Movements, Human Body
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Williams, Clay; Bever, Thomas – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2010
The effects of semantic and phonetic radicals on Chinese character decoding were examined. Our results suggest that semantic and phonetic radicals are each available for access when a corresponding task emphasizes one or the other kind of radical. But in a more neutral lexical recognition task, the semantic radical is more informative. Semantic…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Phonetics, Semantics, Character Recognition