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Inference during reading.

G McKoon1, R Ratcliff

  • 1Psychology Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208.

Psychological Review
|July 1, 1992
PubMed
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The minimalist hypothesis suggests reading automatically encodes only essential inferences for local coherence, not all possible ones. This challenges constructionist views in text processing research.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Current text processing theories often adopt a constructionist approach to inference.
  • This perspective assumes extensive inference generation during reading.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and evaluate the minimalist hypothesis as an alternative to constructionist views.
  • To investigate the automatic encoding of inferences during text comprehension.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing research supporting minimalist inference.
  • Presentation of new experimental data.
  • Analysis of inference types automatically encoded during reading.

Main Results:

  • Experimental results support the minimalist hypothesis.

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  • Minimalist inferences are based on readily available textual or general knowledge information.
  • Inferences required for local coherence are automatically encoded.

    • Conclusions:

    • The minimalist hypothesis offers a parsimonious account of automatic inference during reading.
    • Minimalist inferences form the foundation for more complex, goal-directed inferences.
    • This challenges the necessity of extensive automatic inference generation in text processing.