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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Reading Comprehension

Background:

  • Readers often validate discourse accuracy but may miss contradictions.
  • Sentence presuppositions can hinder accurate validation.
  • Prior research suggests validation success varies with information type.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate readers' validation of presupposed ('given') versus new text information.
  • To determine if readers can successfully validate information presented as given.
  • To explore factors influencing discourse validation, including factivity.

Main Methods:

  • Four experiments were conducted using narrative texts.
  • Critical concepts were introduced and later referred to as either 'given' or 'new' information.
  • Reading times were measured to assess validation of matching versus mismatching information.

Main Results:

  • Mismatching target information led to longer reading times for both given and new concepts.
  • The interaction between matching and factivity for given information mirrored previous findings for new information.
  • Readers demonstrated the ability to successfully validate given target information.

Conclusions:

  • Readers can effectively validate presupposed (given) information in text.
  • Both successful and deficient validation theories can account for observed reader and discourse variables.
  • Understanding how readers process given information is crucial for theories of discourse comprehension.