Oral reading promotes predictive processing in Chinese sentence reading: eye movement evidence.
| Autor: | Chang M; School of Education Science, Nantong University, Nantong, China., Pu Z; School of Education Science, Nantong University, Nantong, China., Wang J; Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China.; Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | PeerJ [PeerJ] 2024 Oct 17; Vol. 12, pp. e18307. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Oct 17 (Print Publication: 2024). |
| DOI: | 10.7717/peerj.18307 |
| Abstrakt: | Background: Fluent sentence reading is widely acknowledged to depend on top-down contextual prediction, wherein sentential and contextual cues guide the pre-activation of linguistic representations before encountering stimuli, facilitating subsequent comprehension. The Prediction-by-Production hypothesis posits an explanation for predictive processes in language comprehension, suggesting that prediction during comprehension involves processes associated with language production. However, there is a lack of eye movement evidence supporting this hypothesis within sentence reading contexts. Thus, we manipulated reading mode and word predictability to examine the influence of language production on predictive processing. Methods: Participants engaged in silent or oral reading of sentences containing either high or low-predictable target words. Eye movements were recorded using the Eyelink1000 eye tracker. Results: The findings revealed a higher skipping rate and shorter fixation times for high-predictable words compared to low-predictable ones, and for silent compared to oral reading. Notably, interactive effects were observed in the time measures (FFD, SFD, GD) during first-pass reading, indicating that word predictability effects were more pronounced during oral reading than silent reading. Discussion: The observed pattern of results suggests that the activation of the production system enhances predictive processing during the early lexical access, providing empirical support for the Prediction-by-Production hypothesis in eye movement sentence reading situations, extending the current understanding of the timing and nature of predictions in reading comprehension. Competing Interests: The authors declare there are no competing interests. (©2024 Chang et al.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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