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Wienke Wannagat1, Gesine Waizenegger2, Gerhild Nieding2
1Department of Psychology, Developmental Psychology, University of Würzburg, Röntgenring 10, 97070, Würzburg, Germany. wienke.wannagat@uni-wuerzburg.de.
Abstract:
In an experiment with 114 children aged 9-12 years, we compared the ability to establish local and global coherence of narrative texts between auditory and audiovisual (auditory text and pictures) presentation. The participants listened to a series of short narrative texts, in each of which a protagonist pursued a goal. Following each text, we collected the response time to a query word that was either associated with a near or a distant causal antecedent of the final sentence. Analysis of these response times indicated that audiovisual presentation has advantages over auditory presentation for accessing information relevant for establishing both local and global coherence, but there are indications that this effect may be slightly more pronounced for global coherence.
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