Reading comprehension and predictability effects on sentence processing: an event-related potential study
| Autor: | Diego Shalom, Carolina Andrea Gattei, Angel Javier Tabullo, Alejandro Javier Wainselboim, Luis Alberto Paris, Yamila Sevilla |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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COMPRENSION LECTORA READING COMPREHENSION Cognitive Neuroscience Otras Psicología Experimental and Cognitive Psychology LATE POSITIVITY Sentence processing PREDICTABILITY Psicología Education CIENCIAS SOCIALES PSICOLOGIA COGNITIVA Reading comprehension Event-related potential Developmental and Educational Psychology N400 Predictability Psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Mind, Brain, and Education. 2019, 14(1) Special Issue: Latin American School Special Issue, Part 1 Repositorio Institucional (UCA) Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina instacron:UCA |
| Popis: | Electrophysiology studies have identified two event-related potentials that aremodulated by predictive processes during language comprehension: the N400 and afrontal positivity. The N400 is smaller when words are presented within highly restrictive sentences, indicating reduced lexical retrieval costs. Violations of strong predictions generate larger frontal positivities, possibly reflecting inhibitory processes. More skilled comprehenders may exhibit enhanced predictive processing, but this possibility has seldom been investigated with ERPs. We analyzed the association between predictability ERP modulations and reading comprehension abilities. Twenty four undergraduate students were exposed to strongly and weakly constraining sentences, ending with an expected or unexpected final word. Their comprehension skills were assessed with a cloze task. Better comprehenders showed smaller N400s for expected words, and larger posterior positivities for unexpected endings, in strongly contraining contexts. These effects correlated with reading comprehension scores. The results suggest that better comprehenders take more advantage of predictions to reduce retrieval costs, and allocate more resources to post-lexical integration processes. Fil: Tabullo, Angel Javier. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales; Argentina. Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina "Santa María de los Buenos Aires"; Argentina Fil: Sevilla, Yamila Alejandra. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Lingüística; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: Gattei, Carolina Andrea. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Física. Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: Shalóm, Diego Edgar. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Física. Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: Paris, Luis Alberto. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales; Argentina Fil: Wainselboim, Alejandro Javier. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales; Argentina |
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