Verification of text ideas during reading☆

Singer, Murray

doi:10.1016/j.jml.2005.11.003

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“…In future studies, psychophysiological measures might be used to examine online emotional reactions (Sukalla, Bilandzic, Bolls, & Busselle, 2015), and researchers can profit from methods used in text comprehension research to examine cognitive processes. Future studies are encouraged to assess reading times on information that might contradict participants’ pre-exposure attitudes (individuals need more time to process information that is inconsistent with prior information or beliefs; e.g., Singer, 2006) or the re-reading of words and sentences (which is also more frequent for information perceived as implausible or inconsistent; e.g., Hyönä, Lorch, & Rinck, 2003). Ideally, studies could obtain several measures simultaneously (e.g., psychophysiological measures and eye-tracking measures such as re-reading) to tap into different components of recipients’ transportation.…”

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Argument Strength and the Persuasiveness of Stories

Schreiner

Appel

Isberner

et al. 2017

Discourse Processes

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Stories are a powerful means to change people’s attitudes and beliefs. The aim of the current work was to shed light on the role of argument strength (argument quality) in narrative persuasion. The present study examined the influence of strong versus weak arguments on attitudes in a low or high narrative context. Moreover, baseline attitudes, interindividual differences in working memory capacity, and recipients’ transportation were examined. Stories with strong arguments were more persuasive than stories with weak arguments. This main effect was qualified by a two-way interaction with baseline attitude, revealing that argument strength had a greater impact on individuals who initially were particularly doubtful toward the story claim. Furthermore, we identified a three-way interaction showing that argument strength mattered most for recipients who were deeply transported into the story world in stories that followed a typical narrative structure. These findings provide an important specification of narrative persuasion theory.

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Argument Strength and the Persuasiveness of Stories

Schreiner

Appel

Isberner

et al. 2017

Discourse Processes

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“…For example, Singer (2006) designed short stories that contained a target sentence that could be either consistent or inconsistent with the story context and general world knowledge. Participants' reading times were prolonged for inconsistent target sentences.…”

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Comprehension of Multiple Documents With Conflicting Information: A Two-Step Model of Validation

Richter

Maier

2017

Educational Psychologist

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“…However, since verification processes seem to be part and parcel of language comprehension (see Altmann & Kamide, 1999;Knoeferle et al, 2011;Singer, 2006), and since they occur during comprehension, it is reasonable to include them into the account. The functionally distinct mismatch processes observed for action and role relations mismatches could be accommodated by having distinct picture-sentence (mis)matches feed into distinct language comprehension subprocesses such as establishing reference and thematic role assignment.…”

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Different mechanisms for role relations versus verb–action congruence effects: Evidence from ERPs in picture–sentence verification

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Extant accounts of visually situated language processing do make general predictions about visual context effects on incremental sentence comprehension; these, however, are not sufficiently detailed to accommodate potentially different visual context effects (such as a scene-sentence mismatch based on actions versus thematic role relations, e.g., Altmann & Kamide, 2007;Knoeferle & Crocker, 2007;Taylor & Zwaan, 2008;Zwaan & Radvansky, 1998).To provide additional data for theory testing and development, we collected event-related brain potentials (ERPs) as participants read a subject-verbobject sentence (500 ms SOA in Experiment 1 and 300 ms SOA in Experiment 2), and post-sentence verification times indicating whether or not the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 verb and/or the thematic role relations matched a preceding picture (depicting two participants engaged in an action). Though incrementally processed, these two types of mismatch yielded different ERP effects. Role-relation mismatch effects emerged at the subject noun as anterior negativities to the mismatching noun, preceding action mismatch effects manifest as centro-parietal N400s greater to the mismatching verb, regardless of SOAs. These two types of mismatch manipulations also yielded different effects post-verbally, correlated differently with a participant's mean accuracy, verbal working memory and visual-spatial scores, and differed in their interactions with SOA. Taken together these results clearly implicate more than a single mismatch mechanism for extant accounts of picture-sentence processing to accommodate.

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Verification of text ideas during reading☆

Cited by 84 publications

References 68 publications

Argument Strength and the Persuasiveness of Stories

Argument Strength and the Persuasiveness of Stories

Comprehension of Multiple Documents With Conflicting Information: A Two-Step Model of Validation

Different mechanisms for role relations versus verb–action congruence effects: Evidence from ERPs in picture–sentence verification

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