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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Sentence Processing

Background:

  • The truth-value effect (faster processing of true vs. false statements) interacts with sentence polarity.
  • This interaction is observed in affirmative but not negative sentences, with various explanations proposed.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the underlying mechanisms of the truth-value-by-polarity interaction.
  • To exclude lexical associations and predictability as sole explanations for the observed pattern.

Main Methods:

  • Participants processed artificial visual worlds and corresponding affirmative/negative sentences.
  • Lexical associations were controlled by using artificial stimuli.
  • Predictability was manipulated to assess its role.

Main Results:

  • A significant truth-value effect was found for affirmative sentences (true faster than false).
  • No truth-value effect was observed for negative sentences.
  • This pattern persisted even after controlling for lexical associations and predictability.

Conclusions:

  • The truth-value-by-polarity interaction is not solely attributable to long-term lexical associations or sentence predictability.
  • Further research is needed to explore alternative explanations, such as informativeness.