Less skilled comprehenders’ ERPs show sluggish word-to-text integration processes

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19509331
AutoresChin Lung Yang, Chin‐Lung Yang (0000-0002-5542-7576), Charles A Perfetti (Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh), Charles Perfetti (0000-0002-0211-8518, University of Pittsburgh), Franz Schmalhofer (Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck)
Año2005
Volumen8
Número2
Páginas157-181
Fecha de publicación2005-12-31
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWritten Language & Literacy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1387-6732 • E-ISSN: 1570-6001
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/wll.8.2.10yan
OpenAlexW2008716587
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas11

We examined the word-to-text integration processes of less skilled comprehenders using ERPs recorded during text reading. The first sentence of each text controlled the accessibility of an antecedent referent for a critical word, which was the first content word of the second sentence. In the explicit condition, the critical word had occurred in the first sentence; in the paraphrase condition, a word or phrase similar in meaning had occurred in the first sentence; in the inference condition, a referent could have been established during the first sentence only if the reader made a forward inference; a baseline condition provided no obvious antecedent for the critical word. PCA, topographic results, and mean amplitude analyses converged on a picture of integration difficulty. Integration effects emerged in the expected mid-latency ranges for the explicit and inference conditions. The pattern of effects differed from that of skilled comprehenders, who, in another study, showed earlier integration effects for explicit and paraphrase conditions, but not reliably for the inference condition. Paraphrase effects were especially weak and late occurring for less skilled comprehenders. Compared with skilled comprehenders, less skilled comprehenders show slow word-to-text integration processes

Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Inference · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Paraphrase · Phrase · Psycholinguistics · Referent · Sentence · Computer Science · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Social Psychology · Text Readability and Simplification · Artificial Intelligence