NDLI: The interplay of local attraction, context and domain-general cognitive control in activation and suppression of semantic distractors during sentence comprehension

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Author	Nozari, Nazbanou Trueswell, John C. Thompson Schill, Sharon L.
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	During sentence comprehension, real-time identification of a referent is driven both by local, context-independent lexical information and by more global sentential information related to the meaning of the utterance as a whole. This paper investigates the cognitive factors that limit the consideration of referents that are supported by local lexical information but not supported by more global sentential information. In an eye-tracking paradigm, participants heard sentences like “She will eat the red pear” while viewing four black-and-white (colorless) line-drawings. In the experimental condition, the display contained a “local attractor” (e.g., a heart), which was locally compatible with the adjective but incompatible with the context (“eat”). In the control condition, the local attractor was replaced by a picture which was incompatible with the adjective (e.g., “igloo”). A second factor manipulated contextual constraint, by using either a constraining verb (e.g., “eat”), or a non-constraining one (e.g., “see”). Results showed consideration of the local attractor, the magnitude of which was modulated by verb constraint, but also by each subject’s cognitive control abilities, as measured in a separate Flanker task run on the same subjects. The findings are compatible with a processing model in which the interplay between local attraction, context, and domain-general control mechanisms determines the consideration of possible referents.
Starting Page	1942
Ending Page	1953
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10699384
Journal	Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Volume Number	23
Issue Number	6
e-ISSN	15315320
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2016-05-26
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Sentence comprehension Eye-tracking Cognitive control Local attraction Distractor activation Cognitive Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Arts and Humanities Developmental and Educational Psychology

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