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Testing the shared resource assumption in theories of text processing.

Katherine A Rawson1

  • 1Kent State University, Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 5190, Kent, OH 44242-0001, USA. krawson1@kent.edu

Cognitive Psychology
|August 9, 2006
PubMed
Summary

Text processing relies on shared resources. Difficult sentence structures limit causal inference formation due to resource constraints, supporting the shared resource assumption in cognitive psychology.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Human Information Processing

Background:

  • Theories of text processing often assume a shared resource limitation.
  • Understanding how cognitive resources are allocated during reading is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the shared resource assumption in text processing.
  • To investigate the impact of syntactic complexity on causal inference.

Main Methods:

  • Eight experiments were conducted using short texts with two critical sentences.
  • A lexical decision task was employed to assess reader responses.
  • Syntactic difficulty of the second sentence was manipulated.

Main Results:

  • Causal inferences were formed more readily with less difficult syntax.

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  • Inferencing was constrained when syntactic parsing was more demanding.
  • Interference was not due to parser output or information maintenance.

    • Conclusions:

    • Difficult syntactic parsing consumes limited cognitive resources.
    • This resource depletion interferes with the operation of inference processes.
    • Findings support the shared resource assumption in text comprehension.