Looking for a word or for its meaning? The impact of induction tasks on adolescents' visual search for verbal material.

Autor: Vibert N; Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l'Apprentissage, CNRS UMR 7295, Université de Poitiers, Université de Tours; Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société, Bâtiment A5, 5 rue Théodore Lefebvre, TSA 21103, 86073, Poitiers cedex 9, France. nicolas.vibert@univ-poitiers.fr., Darles D; Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l'Apprentissage, CNRS UMR 7295, Université de Poitiers, Université de Tours; Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société, Bâtiment A5, 5 rue Théodore Lefebvre, TSA 21103, 86073, Poitiers cedex 9, France., Ros C; Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l'Apprentissage, CNRS UMR 7295, Université de Poitiers, Université de Tours; Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société, Bâtiment A5, 5 rue Théodore Lefebvre, TSA 21103, 86073, Poitiers cedex 9, France., Braasch JLG; College of Education and Human Development, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 30302, USA., Rouet JF; Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l'Apprentissage, CNRS UMR 7295, Université de Poitiers, Université de Tours; Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société, Bâtiment A5, 5 rue Théodore Lefebvre, TSA 21103, 86073, Poitiers cedex 9, France.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Memory & cognition [Mem Cognit] 2023 Oct; Vol. 51 (7), pp. 1562-1579. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Apr 20.
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-023-01420-8
Abstrakt: An eye-tracking experiment was conducted to examine whether the pre-activation of different word-processing pathways by means of semantic versus perceptual induction tasks could modify the way adults and 11- to 15-year-old adolescents searched for single target words within displays of nine words. The presence within the search displays of words either looking like the target word or semantically related to the target word was manipulated. The quality of participants' lexical representations was evaluated through three word-identification and vocabulary tests. Performing a semantic induction task rather than a perceptual one on the target word before searching for it increased search times by 15% in all age groups, reflecting an increase in both the number and duration of gazes directed to non-target words. Moreover, performing the semantic induction task increased the impact of distractor words that were semantically related to the target word on search efficiency. Participants' search efficiency increased with age because of a progressive increase in the quality of adolescents' lexical representations, which allowed participants to more quickly reject the distractors on which they fixated. Indeed, lexical quality scores explained 43% of the variance in search times independently of participants' age. In the simple visual search task used in this study, fostering semantic word processing through the semantic induction task slowed down visual search. However, the literature suggests that semantic induction tasks could, in contrast, help people find information more easily in more complex verbal environments where the meaning of words must be accessed to find task-relevant information.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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