Year: 2022
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Numerous analyses of reading time (RT) data have been implemented-all in an effort to better understand the cognitive processes driving reading comprehension.However, data measured on words at the end of a sentence-or even at the end of a clause-is often omitted due to the confounding factors introduced by so-called "wrap-up effects," which manifests as a skewed distribution of RTs for these words.Consequently, the understanding of the cognitive processes that might be involved in these wrap-up effects is limited.In this work, we attempt to learn more about these processes by examining the relationship between wrap-up effects and information-theoretic quantities, such as word and context surprisals.We find that the distribution of information in prior contexts is often predictive of sentence-and clause-final RTs (while not of sentence-medial RTs).This lends support to several prior hypotheses about the processes involved in wrap-up effects.
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4285209661