講演抄録/キーワード |
講演名 |
2013-08-04 17:05
Temporal distance between the cause and the effect affects the reading of causality sentences
-- Eye-tracking evidence -- ○Yingyi Luo・Manami Sato・Hiromu Sakai(Hiroshima Univ.) TL2013-40 |
抄録 |
(和) |
Causal inference, a fundamental cognitive process with relatedness and temporal ordering of the events computed, can be reflected in language processing. Behavioral evidence has shown that the sentences in which the cause precedes the effect (i.e. consistent with the real temporal order) would be easier to read than those in which the effect precedes the cause, due to the coherence between the conceptual structure of the events and the narrative sequence. However, it is unclear whether the temporal distance between the cause and effect would affect the conceptual structure of the events. This eye-tracking study crossed the narrative sequence (cause-effect/effect-cause) and the temporal distance of the events (short-distance/long-distance) to investigate how reading of causality events would be affected by making causal inference based on the world knowledge. The results showed that, while readers launched less regression in reading cause-effect sentences than in reading effect-cause ones for short-distance events, this facilitation was absent for long-distance events. We suggest that the causality events may be conceptually represented not in terms of the temporal order but it may be structured on the basis of the reasoning order. |
(英) |
Causal inference, a fundamental cognitive process with relatedness and temporal ordering of the events computed, can be reflected in language processing. Behavioral evidence has shown that the sentences in which the cause precedes the effect (i.e. consistent with the real temporal order) would be easier to read than those in which the effect precedes the cause, due to the coherence between the conceptual structure of the events and the narrative sequence. However, it is unclear whether the temporal distance between the cause and effect would affect the conceptual structure of the events. This eye-tracking study crossed the narrative sequence (cause-effect/effect-cause) and the temporal distance of the events (short-distance/long-distance) to investigate how reading of causality events would be affected by making causal inference based on the world knowledge. The results showed that, while readers launched less regression in reading cause-effect sentences than in reading effect-cause ones for short-distance events, this facilitation was absent for long-distance events. We suggest that the causality events may be conceptually represented not in terms of the temporal order but it may be structured on the basis of the reasoning order. |
キーワード |
(和) |
Causal inference / Epistemic / Temporal order / Temporal distance / / / / |
(英) |
Causal inference / Epistemic / Temporal order / Temporal distance / / / / |
文献情報 |
信学技報, vol. 113, no. 174, TL2013-40, pp. 139-144, 2013年8月. |
資料番号 |
TL2013-40 |
発行日 |
2013-07-27 (TL) |
ISSN |
Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 |
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技術研究報告に掲載された論文の著作権は電子情報通信学会に帰属します.(許諾番号:10GA0019/12GB0052/13GB0056/17GB0034/18GB0034) |
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