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Bohan, Jason; Filik, Ruth – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2018
We report two text change-detection studies in which we investigate the influence of reading perspective on text memory. In Experiment 1 participants read from the perspective of one of two characters in a series of short stories, and word changes were either semantically close or distant. Participants correctly reported more changes to…
Descriptors: Evidence, Perspective Taking, Reading Comprehension, Association (Psychology)
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Mayerhofer, Bastian; Maier, Katja; Schacht, Annekathrin – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2016
In garden path (GP) jokes, a first dominant interpretation is detected as incoherent and subsequently substituted by a hidden joke interpretation. Two important factors for the processing of GP jokes are salience of the initial interpretation and accessibility of the hidden interpretation. Both factors are assumed to be affected by contextual…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Cues, Humor, Linguistic Theory
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de Koning, Björn B.; Wassenburg, Stephanie I.; Bos, Lisanne T.; Van der Schoot, Menno – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
Embodied theories of language comprehension propose that readers construct a mental simulation of described objects that contains perceptual characteristics of their real-world referents. The present study is the first to investigate directly whether implied object size is mentally simulated during sentence comprehension and to study the potential…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Simulation, Sentences, Cognitive Processes
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Autry, Kevin S.; Levine, William H. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2014
Negated words take longer to recognize than non-negated words following sentences with negation, suggesting that negated concepts are less active. The present experiments tested the possibility that this reduced activation would not persist beyond immediate testing. Experiment 1 used a probe task and materials similar to those used in previous…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Morphemes, Language Processing, Reading Comprehension
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Crossley, Scott A.; Skalicky, Stephen; Dascalu, Mihai; McNamara, Danielle S.; Kyle, Kristopher – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
Research has identified a number of linguistic features that influence the reading comprehension of young readers; yet, less is known about whether and how these findings extend to adult readers. This study examines text comprehension, processing, and familiarity judgment provided by adult readers using a number of different approaches (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Reading Comprehension, Readability, Adults