Word integration and regression programming during reading: a test of the E-Z reader 10 model.
Participants read sentences with two types of target nouns, one that did and one that did not require a determiner to form a legal verb-noun phrase sequence. Sentences were presented with and without the critical determiner to create a local noun integration difficulty when a required determiner was missing. The absence of a required determiner did not influence 1st-pass reading of the verb, the noun, and the posttarget word. It did, however, have a profound effect on 2nd-pass reading. All three words were a likely target of a regression when a required determiner was missing, and the noun and the posttarget word were likely sources of a regression. These results are consistent with novel E-Z reader model assumptions, according to which identification of the noun should be followed by its integration, and integration difficulties can lead to the initiation of a regression to the noun. However, integration difficulties influenced eye movements earlier and later than predicted by the new model.
Inhoff
Albrecht W
AW
Department of Psychology, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA. inhoff@binghamton.edu
Greenberg
Seth N
SN
Solomon
Matthew
M
Wang
Chin-An
CA
D032882:Comprehension; D005133:Eye Movements; D006801:Humans; D008606:Mental Processes; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011932:Reading; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012016:Reference Values; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012660:Semantics; D014825:Vocabulary