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Brunyé, Tad T.; Ditman, Tali; Giles, Grace E.; Holmes, Amanda; Taylor, Holly A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Readers differentially adopt an agent's perspective as a function of pronouns encountered during reading. The present study assessed the reliability of this effect across narrative contexts and self-reported variation in levels of engagement during reading. Experiment 1 used an extended sample (N = 263) and replicated an interactive influence of…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Reading Processes, Reliability, Form Classes (Languages)
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Fedorenko, Evelina; Woodbury, Rebecca; Gibson, Edward – Cognitive Science, 2013
Linguistic dependencies between non-adjacent words have been shown to cause comprehension difficulty, compared with local dependencies. According to one class of sentence comprehension accounts, non-local dependencies are difficult because they require the retrieval of the first dependent from memory when the second dependent is encountered.…
Descriptors: Memory, Task Analysis, Sentences, Language Processing
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Reingold, Eyal M.; Yang, Jinmian; Rayner, Keith – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Participants' eye movements were monitored while they read sentences in which high-frequency and low-frequency target words were presented either in normal font (e.g., account) or case alternated (e.g., aCcOuNt). The influence of the word frequency and case alternation manipulations on fixation times was examined. Although both manipulations had…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Eye Movements, Language Processing, Grammar
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Potter, Mary C.; Wyble, Brad; Olejarczyk, Jennifer – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
In whole report, a sentence presented sequentially at the rate of about 10 words/s can be recalled accurately, whereas if the task is to report only two target words (e.g., red words), the second target suffers an attentional blink if it appears shortly after the first target. If these two tasks are carried out simultaneously, is there an…
Descriptors: Sentences, Memory, Vocabulary Development, Experiments
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Slattery, Timothy J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
An eye movement experiment was conducted to investigate whether the processing of a word can be affected by its higher frequency neighbor (HFN). Target words with an HFN (birch) or without one (spruce) were embedded into 2 types of sentence frames: 1 in which the HFN (birth) could fit given the prior sentence context, and 1 in which it could not.…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Language Processing, Word Recognition, Word Frequency