Semantic Size and Contextual Congruency Effects During Reading
Evidence From Eye Movements
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11272886 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wei Wei (0000-0003-1852-2811, ,), Anne E Cook (0000-0002-0733-6370, ,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 5-6 |
| Pages | 415-429 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Processes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-853X • E-ISSN: 1532-6950 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0163853x.2016.1175899 |
| OpenAlex | W2330228397 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 36 |
Recent lexical decision studies have produced conflicting evidence about whether an object's semantic size influences word recognition. The present study examined this variable in online reading. Target words representing small and large objects were embedded in sentence contexts that were either neutral, congruent, or incongruent with respect to object size, and participants' eye movements were monitored. We found that although semantic size alone did not influence early word processing, the congruency of the object's size with the preceding context did have an effect. Rereading durations and total times were longer for targets in incongruent contexts, but this occurred regardless of a target's semantic size. We suggest that semantic size may not affect early word recognition processes but that size information is activated upon reading a word and subsequently integrated and validated against readers' knowledge and the context. These findings can be accommodated within the RI-Val view of comprehension
Affect (linguistics · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Comprehension · Context (archaeology · Context effect · Eye movement · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Object (grammar · Reading (process · Semantic memory · Semantics (computer science · Sentence · Word (group theory · Word recognition · Communication · Computer Science · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Text Readability and Simplification · Artificial Intelligence
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| Citations per year | 0.22 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2021 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |