Gender differences in mental simulation during sentence and word processing

Autor: Wassenburg, Stephanie I., de Koning, Bjorn B., de Vries, Meinou H., Boonstra, A. Marije, van der Schoot, Menno
Přispěvatelé: Educational and Developmental Psychology, Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Educational Studies, LEARN! - Brain, learning and development, Educational Neuroscience
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Journal of Research in Reading, 40(3), 274-296. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Wassenburg, S I, de Koning, B B, de Vries, M H, Boonstra, A M & van der Schoot, M 2017, ' Gender differences in mental simulation during sentence and word processing ', Journal of Research in Reading, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 274-296 . https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9817.12066
Journal of Research in Reading, 40(3), 274-296. Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN: 0141-0423
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9817.12066
Popis: Text comprehension requires readers to mentally simulate the described situation by reactivating previously acquired sensory and motor information from (episodic) memory. Drawing upon research demonstrating gender differences, favouring girls, in tasks involving episodic memory retrieval, the present study explores whether gender differences exist in mental simulation in children (Grades 4 to 6). In Experiment 1, 99 children performed a sentence-picture verification task measuring mental simulation at sentence level. In Experiment 2, 97 children completed a lexical decision task in which imageability of words was manipulated to measure mental simulation at word level. Only for girls we found faster reaction times for matching versus mismatching sentence-picture pairs (Experiment 1) and high-imageability versus low-imageability words (Experiment 2). The results suggest that girls construct more coherent and vivid mental simulations than boys and rely more heavily on these representations. The results emphasize the importance of including gender into reading comprehension research.
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