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Attention and Memory Play Different Roles in Syntactic Choice during Sentence Production
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Myachykov, Andriy; Garrod, Simon; Scheepers, Christoph – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2018
Attentional control of referential information is an important contributor to the structure of discourse. We investigated how attention and memory interplay during visually situated sentence production. We manipulated speakers' attention to the agent or the patient of a described event by means of a referential or a dot visual cue. We also…
Descriptors: Attention, Memory, Role, Syntax
Computer-Assisted Interventions Targeting Reading Skills of Children with Reading Disabilities--A Longitudinal Study
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Falth, Linda; Gustafson, Stefan; Tjus, Tomas; Heimann, Mikael; Svensson, Idor – Dyslexia, 2013
The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of three computerized interventions on the reading skills of children with reading disabilities in Grade 2. This longitudinal intervention study included five test sessions over 1 year. Two test points occur before the intervention, and three afterwards. The last follow-up was conducted 1…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Skills, Reading Difficulties, Decoding (Reading)
Knowledge Activation versus Sentence Mapping When Representing Fictional Characters' Emotional States.
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Gernsbacher, Morton Ann; Robertson, Rachel R. W. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1992
In a study of knowledge activation and sentence mapping, subjects read stories that described concrete actions, and then the content of the stories was manipulated (i.e. stories were written that implied different emotional states). It is suggested that the more emotionally evoking situations one encounters the more memory traces are stored and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Emotional Response, Fiction
Processing Load and Children's Comprehension of Relative Clause Sentences.
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Andrews, Glenda; Halford, Graeme S.; Prasad, Ashika – 1998
Two experiments investigated the role of capacity in children's comprehension of relative clause sentences. Sentences varied in number of participant roles, focus (object, subject), and embeddedness (center-embedded, right-branching). Center-embeddedness and object-focus were expected to constrain individuals toward assigning more nouns to their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Memory, Primary Education, Reading Comprehension
The Influence of Contextual Information on the Resolution of Ambiguous Pronouns by Younger and Older Adults.
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Leonard, Carol L.; Waters, Gloria S.; Caplan, David – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1997
Investigates the age effects on the abilities of older and younger adults in Canada to use contextual information to resolve ambiguous pronouns. Findings reveal that both groups were equally influenced by the contextual information available, although older adults responded more slowly and were less accurate than the younger adults. (50…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Ambiguity, Context Effect, Foreign Countries
Generalizability and Automaticity of Second Language Learning under Implicit, Incidental, Enhanced, and Instructed Conditions.
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Robinson, Peter – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1997
Examines the extent to which Japanese learners of English as a Second Language acquired a rule regulating the argument structure frames of novel English verbs after exposure to grammatical examples of sentences containing the verbs. Results showed significant differences in the extent of learning, with the focus-on-form conditions outperforming…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Classroom Research, Cognitive Processes, College Students