Dr Nabil Hasshim M.N.A.B.M.Hasshim@salford.ac.uk
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Linking cognitive control to language comprehension: proportion congruency effects in syntactic ambiguity resolution
Hasshim, Nabil; Kukona, Anuenue
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Anuenue Kukona
Abstract
Two experiments investigated the effect of sustained cognitive control engagement on syntactic ambiguity resolution. Participants heard (Experiment 1) or read (Experiment 2) garden path sentences like “Put the kiwi on the rectangle on the circle”, in which “on the rectangle” could temporarily reflect either a destination of “Put” or modifier of “kiwi”, and they viewed visual arrays with a kiwi on a rectangle and an empty rectangle and circle. Cognitive control was manipulated experimentally by interleaving sentence trials among either mostly incongruent or mostly congruent Stroop trials. Across both experiments, garden path mouse cursor movements to incorrect destinations were reduced when sentence trials were interleaved among mostly incongruent Stroop trials, and in Experiment 2, garden path reading time effects were also reduced in this condition. These results suggest that a high proportion of incongruent trials supports the sustained engagement of cognitive control and causally improves sentence comprehension across (i.e. spoken and written) modalities.
Citation
Hasshim, N., & Kukona, A. (2024). Linking cognitive control to language comprehension: proportion congruency effects in syntactic ambiguity resolution. #Journal not on list, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2314027
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 22, 2024 |
Online Publication Date | Feb 12, 2024 |
Publication Date | Feb 12, 2024 |
Deposit Date | Feb 17, 2024 |
Publicly Available Date | Feb 19, 2024 |
Journal | Language, Cognition and Neuroscience |
Electronic ISSN | 2327-3801 |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Pages | 1-17 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2314027 |
Keywords | Cognitive Neuroscience, Linguistics and Language, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics |
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