Exploring Individual Differences in Language Validation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11273610 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Murray Singer (0000-0002-7332-7923, University of Manitoba, corresponding author), Jeffrey C Doering (University of Manitoba) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 167-188 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| 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.2013.855534 |
| OpenAlex | W1968827504 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 44 |
Understanders appear to routinely and immediately evaluate the congruence of discourse at many levels of analysis, processes often labeled "validation." This study was an initial exploration of individual differences in discourse validation. Text reading-time profiles were examined as a function of two negligibly correlated reader qualities: first, their working memory resources (indexed by reading span), and second, their accessing of relevant antecedent message ideas and world knowledge in the service of comprehension. Participants read narratives bearing a target sentence that was either true or false with reference to the preceding text and was expressed either in the affirmative or negative. For low-access readers, reading time was greater for false than for true affirmative target sentences and vice versa for negative targets, mirroring a familiar pattern of intentional sentence verification. In contrast, for high-access readers, reading time was greater for false than for true sentences regardless of affirmative/negative expression. Regression analysis suggested that all subjects validated the target sentence but that only high-access readers were also sensitive to subtle pragmatic discourse influences. Unexpectedly, there was a generally similar truth × negation × reading span interaction profile. However, because that effect did not attain conventional significance levels, its implications are viewed only as suggestive
Cognitive psychology · Contrast (vision · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Negation · Reading (process · Reading comprehension · Sentence · Syntax · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Artificial Intelligence
Validation processes and reading purpose
Detecting falsehood relies on mismatch detection between sentence components
Expectation-based Comprehension
Text-Based Manipulation of the Coherence Threshold
Fantasy-based violations of real-world knowledge
Challenges in Processes of Validation and Comprehension
The Role of Connectives and Stance Markers in the Processing of Subjective Causal Relations
Coherence Threshold and the Continuity of Processing
Fundamentals of inferencing during reading
Semantic Integration in Sentences and Discourse
Sentence comprehension
Language Comprehension as Structure Building
Investigating differences in general comprehension skill.
The contexts of plausible denial
Individual differences in working memory and reading
Pronouns, Names, and the Centering of Attention in Discourse
Long-term working memory.
A theory of reading
A capacity theory of comprehension
Handbook of Social Cognition
Shallow Processing and Underspecification
Strategies for resolving coherence breaks in reading
Noticing and Revising Discrepancies as Texts Unfold
Shallow Semantic Processing of Text
Negatives
The grammar of referential coherence as mental processing instructions
| Citations per year | 0.9 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |