Incremental Comprehension Examined in Event-Related Potentials: Word-to-Text Integration and Structure Building

Autor/inn/en	Perfetti, Charles; Helder, Anne
Titel	Incremental Comprehension Examined in Event-Related Potentials: Word-to-Text Integration and Structure Building
Quelle	In: Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 58 (2021) 1, S.2-21 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Helder, Anne)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0163-853X
DOI	10.1080/0163853X.2020.1743806
Schlagwörter	Reading Comprehension; Sentences; Reading Processes; Cognitive Processes; Cues; Memory; Recall (Psychology); Semantics; Associative Learning; Sentence Structure; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Prediction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Leseverstehen; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Leseprozess; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Stichwort; Gedächtnis; Abberufung; Semantik; Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Vorhersage
Abstract	The study of word-to-text integration (WTI) provides a window on incremental processes that link the meaning of a word to the preceding text. We review a research program using event-related potential indicators of WTI at sentence beginnings, thus localizing sources of integration to prior text meaning independently of the current sentence. The results led to the following conclusions. First, integration occurs when the word being read cues the retrieval of a text meaning from memory. Second, when the word does not cue retrieval, new structure building rather than integration is the default at sentence beginnings. Third, integration depends on a highly accessible text memory. The immediate preceding sentence provides the primary source for integration; however, instructions that encourage attention to thematic elements enable influences of global text meaning. Finally, contrary to the role that prediction may play in comprehension generally, prediction has a limited role in WTI at sentence beginnings. (As Provided).
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