Similarity-Based Interference during Language Comprehension: Evidence from Eye Tracking during Reading

Autor/inn/en	Gordon, Peter C.; Hendrick, Randall; Johnson, Marcus; Lee, Yoonhyoung
Titel	Similarity-Based Interference during Language Comprehension: Evidence from Eye Tracking during Reading
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32 (2006) 6, S.1304-1321 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
Schlagwörter	Interference (Language); Verbs; Memory; Reading Comprehension; Sentence Structure; Phrase Structure; Nouns; Eye Movements; Semantics; Language Processing + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gedächtnis; Leseverstehen; Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Phrasenstruktur; Augenbewegung; Semantik; Sprachverarbeitung
Abstract	The nature of working memory operation during complex sentence comprehension was studied by means of eye-tracking methodology. Readers had difficulty when the syntax of a sentence required them to hold 2 similar noun phrases (NPs) in working memory before syntactically and semantically integrating either of the NPs with a verb. In sentence structures that placed these NPs at the same linear distances from one another but allowed integration with a verb for 1 of the NPs, the comprehension difficulty was not seen. These results are interpreted as indicating that similarity-based interference occurs online during the comprehension of complex sentences and that the degree of memory accessibility conventionally associated with different types of NPs does not have a strong effect on sentence processing. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10