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Children’s semantic and world knowledge overrides fictional information during anticipatory language processing

Lee, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8854-1968, Chambers, Craig G., Huettig, Falk and Ganea, Patricia A. (2017) Children’s semantic and world knowledge overrides fictional information during anticipatory language processing. In: CogSci 2017 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society, pp. 730-735

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Abstract

Using real-time eye-movement measures, we asked how a fantastical discourse context competes with stored representations of semantic and world knowledge to influence children's and adults' moment-by-moment interpretation of a story. Seven-year-olds were less effective at bypassing stored semantic and world knowledge during real-time interpretation than adults. Nevertheless, an effect of discourse context on comprehension was still apparent.

Item Type: Book Section
Status: Published
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
School/Department: School of Education, Language and Psychology
URI: https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/7027

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