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Foregrounding Effects during Reading, Revisited
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Cook, Anne E.; Gueraud, Sabine; Was, Christopher A.; O'Brien, Edward J. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2007
Previous researchers have argued that objects associated with a protagonist may be foregrounded, or held active, in memory. This study expanded on previous work by using an inconsistency paradigm to investigate the effects of protagonist association on object accessibility. Readers experienced more processing difficulty when a target sentence…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Memory, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics