Week 10

Question 1

eye movements consist of :

Answer 1

fixations: approx 250 ms
Saccades: eye jump from one place to another

Question 2

what is our perceptual span to left and to right

Answer 2

left: ab 4 characters
right: ab 12-15 characters

Question 3

eye tracking

the emmediacy hypothesis:

Answer 3

reader tries to comprehend a word as soon as it has been processedf

Question 5

eye tracking

The eye-mind hypothesis

Answer 5

theres is no delay between the eye looking at a word and the brain processing it

Question 6

Syntax refers to

Answer 6

the ordering words according to grammatical rules to build meaningful sentences.

Question 7

Parsing is the process of

Answer 7

computing the syntactic structure of sentences.

Question 8

N400 (on EEG) is shown when

Answer 8

semantic anomolies

Question 9

P600 (on EEG) is shown when

Answer 9

inicates syntactic (sentance and grammer) violations

Question 10

Discourse

Answer 10

spoken/written language that is multiple sentances long

Question 11

CONSTRUCTION-INTEGRATION MODEL

Van Dijk and Kintsch (1983) proposed that understanding a discourse involves
three levels of representation:

Answer 11

-Surface form- represents the text itself

-Text base/propositional: represents propositions formed from the text (FROG ATE BUG FOR BREAKFAST)

-Situation model- decribes the situation referred to in the text (BUG ATE FROG)

remeber the frog ate the bug, the bug was eaten by the frog etc

Question 12

Three common types of inferences

Answer 12

– logical, bridging & elaborative

Question 13

BRIDGING INFERENCES

Answer 13

Help us make information coherent by linking new information to
previously obtained information

Question 14

LOGICAL INFERENCES

Answer 14

BAsed on formal rules - follow from the meaning of words

100% certain

Question 15

Elaborative inferences

Answer 15

involve extending what is in the text with world knowledge