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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Reading Comprehension Research

Background:

  • The consistency effect in text comprehension shows longer reading times for inconsistent text.
  • This effect is often seen as proof of readers validating text coherence.
  • However, readers sometimes fail to detect inconsistencies, leading to misinformation effects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether readers consciously notice text discrepancies identified by the consistency effect.
  • To explore the awareness of inconsistencies in conceptual and character-trait domains.
  • To determine if the consistency effect reliably signals conscious detection of incoherence.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Replicated the consistency effect using self-paced reading for conceptual and character-trait inconsistencies.
  • Experiment 2: Assessed reader judgments of consistency for target sentences.
  • Experiment 3: Tested accuracy on inconsistencies when target sentences were reframed as questions.

Main Results:

  • The consistency effect was replicated in Experiment 1.
  • Readers overlooked nearly half of the inconsistencies in Experiment 2.
  • Accuracy for detecting inconsistencies did not differ from consistent targets in Experiment 3, suggesting prior oversight.

Conclusions:

  • Readers do not reliably become consciously aware of text discrepancies that trigger the consistency effect.
  • A passive validation process may detect inconsistencies without reaching conscious awareness.
  • Findings align with the construction-integration model, proposing a passive validation stage.