title: Validation of semantic illusions independent of anomaly detection: evidence from eye movements.
abstract: Several theorists have argued that readers fail to detect semantic anomalies during reading, and that these effects are indicative of "shallow processing" behaviours. Previous studies of semantic anomalies such as the Moses illusion have focused primarily on explicit detection tasks. In the present study, we examined participants' eye movements as they read true/false statements that were non-anomalous, or contained a semantic anomaly that was either high- or low-related to the correct information. Analyses of reading behaviours revealed that only low-related detected anomalies resulted in initial processing difficulty, but both detected and undetected anomalies, regardless of whether they were high- or low-related, resulted in delayed processing difficulty. The results extend previous findings on semantic anomalies and are discussed in terms of the RI-Val model of text processing.
authors.affiliation: a Educational Psychology Department , University of Utah , Salt Lake City , UT , USA.
authors.forename: Anne E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.affiliation: b Department of Psychology , University of New Hampshire , Durham , NH , USA.
authors.forename: Erinn K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Walsh
authors.affiliation: a Educational Psychology Department , University of Utah , Salt Lake City , UT , USA.
authors.forename: Margaret A A
authors.initials: MAA
authors.lastname: Bills
authors.affiliation: a Educational Psychology Department , University of Utah , Salt Lake City , UT , USA.
authors.forename: John C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Kircher
authors.affiliation: b Department of Psychology , University of New Hampshire , Durham , NH , USA.
authors.forename: Edward J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: O'Brien
keywords: Eye movements; RI-Val model; Semantic illusions; Validation