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Frisson, Steven, Harvey, David R. and Staub, Adrian (2017) No prediction error cost in reading : evidence from eye movements. Journal of Memory and Language, 95 . pp. 200-214. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2017.04.007 ISSN 0749-596X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2017.04.007
Abstract
Two eye movement while reading experiments address the issue of how reading of an unpredictable word is influenced by the presence of a more predictable alternative. The experiments replicate the robust effects of predictability on the probability of skipping and on early and late reading time measures. However, in both experiments, an unpredictable but plausible word was read no more slowly when another word was highly predictable (i.e., in a constraining context) than when no word was highly predictable (i.e., in a neutral context). In fact, an unpredictable word that was semantically related to the predictable alternative demonstrated facilitation in the constraining context, in relatively late eye movement measures. These results, which are consistent with Luke and Christianson’s (2016) corpus study, provide the first evidence from a controlled experimental design for the absence of a prediction error cost, and for facilitation of an unpredictable but semantically related word, during normal reading. The findings support a model of lexical predictability effects in which there is broad pre-activation of potential continuations, rather than discrete predictions of specific lexical items. Importantly, pre-activation of likely continuations does not result in processing difficulty when some other word is actually encountered.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Reading, Psychology of, Reading -- Physiological aspects, Eye -- Movements, Visual perception, Cloze procedure, Reading comprehension | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Memory and Language | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Academic Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0749-596X | ||||||||
| Official Date: | August 2017 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 95 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 200-214 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jml.2017.04.007 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 June 2017 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 June 2017 |
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