Hemispheric processing of anaphoric inferences: The activation of multiple antecedents  

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Virtue, Sandra ; Broek, Paul van den

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 93 no. 3 (2005), page 327-337.
Topik: Hemisphere asymmetries; Text comprehension; Inferences; Semantic processing; Anaphor resolution; Pronoun resolution
Fulltext: 93_03_Virtue.pdf (326.33KB)

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This research investigates the hemispheric processing of anaphors when readers activate multiple antecedents. Participants read texts promoting an anaphoric inference and performed a lexical decision task to inference-related target words that were consistent (Experiment 1) or inconsistent (Experiment 2) with the text. These targets were preceded by constrained or less constraining text and were presented to participants’ right visual Weld-left hemisphere or to their left visual Weld-right hemisphere. In Experiment 1, both hemispheres showed facilitation for consistent antecedents and the right hemisphere showed an advantage over the left hemisphere in processing antecedents when preceded by less constrained text. In Experiment 2, the left hemisphere only showed negative facilitation for inconsistent antecedents. When readers comprehend text with multiple antecedents: both hemispheres process consistent information, the left hemisphere inhibits inconsistent information, and the right hemisphere processes less constrained information.

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