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Sentential context and on-line lexical decision

G McKoon1, R Ratcliff

  • 1Psychology Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208.

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition
|September 1, 1994
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This study challenges previous findings on verb comprehension. Results suggest that factors other than implicit object processing influence how we understand sentences, impacting reading times.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Prior research suggested implicit object processing during verb comprehension influences lexical decision times.
  • Alternative interpretations proposed semantic-pragmatic fit as the cause for faster response times.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of implicit object processing in sentence comprehension.
  • To challenge existing interpretations of lexical decision time experiments related to verb processing.

Main Methods:

  • Experimental design manipulating the presence of implicit objects in sentences.
  • Lexical decision tasks measuring response times to test words.

Main Results:

  • Identical patterns of faster lexical decision response times were observed with and without implicit objects.

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  • This finding occurred when test words were semantically related to the verb context.

    • Conclusions:

    • The study implicates factors beyond syntactic processing of implicit objects in explaining observed response time patterns.
    • Results suggest that sentence comprehension models may need revision to account for these alternative influences.