کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
926356 921834 2014 18 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Spatial distance effects on incremental semantic interpretation of abstract sentences: Evidence from eye tracking
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
اثرات فاصله فضایی بر تفسیر معنایی افزایشی جملات انتزاعی: شواهد از ردیابی چشم
کلمات کلیدی
جملات خلاقانه، فاصله فضایی، زمینه بصری، خواندن، ردیابی چشم
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب شناختی
چکیده انگلیسی


• Using a verification task we explored the effects of visuo-spatial information on reading times.
• We examined effects of visual information on the incremental interpretation of abstract language.
• Visual context and language comprehension interact beyond referential or lexical links.
• We extended predictions from linguistic theories to online language processing.
• We discuss theoretical implication of our finding for situated processing accounts.

A large body of evidence has shown that visual context information can rapidly modulate language comprehension for concrete sentences and when it is mediated by a referential or a lexical-semantic link. What has not yet been examined is whether visual context can also modulate comprehension of abstract sentences incrementally when it is neither referenced by, nor lexically associated with, the sentence. Three eye-tracking reading experiments examined the effects of spatial distance between words (Experiment 1) and objects (Experiment 2 and 3) on participants’ reading times for sentences that convey similarity or difference between two abstract nouns (e.g., ‘Peace and war are certainly different...’). Before reading the sentence, participants inspected a visual context with two playing cards that moved either far apart or close together. In Experiment 1, the cards turned and showed the first two nouns of the sentence (e.g., ‘peace’, ‘war’). In Experiments 2 and 3, they turned but remained blank. Participants’ reading times at the adjective (Experiment 1: first-pass reading time; Experiment 2: total times) and at the second noun phrase (Experiment 3: first-pass times) were faster for sentences that expressed similarity when the preceding words/objects were close together (vs. far apart) and for sentences that expressed dissimilarity when the preceding words/objects were far apart (vs. close together). Thus, spatial distance between words or entirely unrelated objects can rapidly and incrementally modulate the semantic interpretation of abstract sentences.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Cognition - Volume 133, Issue 3, December 2014, Pages 535–552
نویسندگان
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