| Presentation | 2014-08-12 Readers with less cognitive control are more affected by surprising content: Evidence from a self-paced reading experiment in German Bruno NICENBOIM, Shravan VASISHTH, Reinhold KLIEGL, |
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| Abstract(in English) | A mechanism of predictions for language implies that the parser has to build up potential upcoming continuations and then evaluate them given the evidence. We show that the difficulty produced by the mismatch between the actual continuation and the predictions is modulated by cognitive control as measured by a modification of the Stroop task. We ran a self-paced reading task in German using a paradigm similar to the one from DeLong et al. (2005) and Van Berkum et al (2005). Our results show a larger slowdown for readers with less cognitive control while reading surprising content. The results suggest that cognitive control modulates the ability to suppress irrelevant predictions. |
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| Keyword(in English) | predictions / surprise / cognitive control / individual differences / German |
| Paper # | TL2014-23 |
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| Conference Date | 2014/8/5(1days) |
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| Language | ENG |
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| Title (in English) | Readers with less cognitive control are more affected by surprising content: Evidence from a self-paced reading experiment in German |
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| Keyword(1) | predictions |
| Keyword(2) | surprise |
| Keyword(3) | cognitive control |
| Keyword(4) | individual differences |
| Keyword(5) | German |
| 1st Author's Name | Bruno NICENBOIM |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Departament of Linguistics, University of Potsdam() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Shravan VASISHTH |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Departament of Linguistics, University of Potsdam |
| 3rd Author's Name | Reinhold KLIEGL |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam |
| Date | 2014-08-12 |
| Paper # | TL2014-23 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.114 |
| Number (no) | 176 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 5 |
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