The time course of generating causal antecedent and causal consequence inferences
| Autor: | Arthur C. Graesser, Joseph P. Magliano, Brenda K. Johnson, William Baggett |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
| Předmět: |
Linguistics and Language
Computer science business.industry Communication Inference Stimulus (physiology) computer.software_genre Language and Linguistics Comprehension Rapid serial visual presentation Reading comprehension Time course Lexical decision task Artificial intelligence business computer Sentence Natural language processing |
| Zdroj: | Discourse Processes. 16:35-53 |
| ISSN: | 1532-6950 0163-853X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01638539309544828 |
| Popis: | The present study tested whether causal antecedent and causal consequence inferences are generated on‐line during comprehension and also determined the time course of their activation. The study manipulated inference category, the rate of word presentation in a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) format, and the delay between the last word in a sentence and the test word (i.e., SOA interval). Lexical decision latencies were collected on test strings (i.e., nonwords, inference words, or unrelated words) which were presented after each sentence in the passages. The results indicated that there was a threshold of 400 ms after stimulus presentation (RSVP and SOA) before causal antecedents were generated on‐line, whereas causal consequences were not generated on‐line. These results support a bridging model of inference generation which assumes that causal antecedent inferences are needed to bridge an explicit text event with prior passage content, whereas expectation inferences are not normally generated o... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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