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The processing of cohesion devices in text comprehension.

M F Ehrlich1

  • 1Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, CNRS URA 316, Université René Descartes, Paris, France.

Psychological Research
|January 1, 1991
PubMed
Summary

Altering text cohesion impacts reading comprehension. Lowering cohesion significantly decreased recall performance, indicating readers may not process cohesion devices effectively.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Reading Comprehension Research

Background:

  • Text comprehension relies on constructing mental representations.
  • Surface-cohesion devices are crucial for text coherence.
  • Understanding how readers process cohesion is key to comprehension.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the cognitive processing of surface-cohesion devices.
  • To examine the impact of text cohesion on reading comprehension and recall.
  • To assess whether readers effectively utilize cohesion devices.

Main Methods:

  • An experiment using two narrative versions: high-cohesion and low-cohesion.
  • Manipulation of cohesion through anaphoric markers, temporal connectives, word order, and thematic sentences.
  • Participants read texts and immediately recalled the content.

Main Results:

  • A non-significant increase in reading time (8%) for low-cohesion texts.
  • A significant decrease in recall performance (25%) for low-cohesion texts.
  • Evidence suggests readers did not fully engage with cohesion-enhancing processing.

Conclusions:

  • Reduced text cohesion negatively impacts recall performance.
  • Readers may not adequately process cohesion devices, hindering mental representation construction.
  • Findings have implications for text comprehension models and metacognitive reading strategies.

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