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A Developmental Perspective on Processing Semantic Context: Preliminary Evidence from Sentential Auditory Word
N A Mahler1,2, H J Chenery3,4
1School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia. n.mahler@griffith.edu.au.
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
|July 12, 2018
Summary
Children
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Developmental Psychology
- Neuroscience
Background:
- Auditory word recognition involves complex cognitive processes.
- Understanding semantic context and attentional mechanisms is crucial for language development.
- Developmental changes in these processes are not fully understood.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate developmental changes in processing semantic context in sentences.
- To examine the roles of attention and suppression in auditory word recognition.
- To delineate the developmental trajectories of component processes in auditory word recognition.
Main Methods:
- Cross-sectional study with 39 typically developing children (aged 6-14).
- Sentential auditory word repetition task with manipulations in semantic congruity, sentence constraint, and cloze probability.
- Analysis of naming latencies and suppression effects.
Main Results:
- High sentence constraints led to top-down effects, suppressing anticipated words.
- Violation of expectations (incongruous context) increased naming latencies.
- Developmental changes in component processes correlated with attention, while suppression remained stable.
Conclusions:
- Findings support the Trace model of auditory word recognition.
- Developmental improvements in auditory word processing are linked to attentional changes.
- Suppression mechanisms appear to be mature early in development.
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