Omit needless words: Sentence length perception

N Matthews, F Folivi - PloS one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Short sentences improve readability. Short sentences also promote social justice through
accessibility and inclusiveness. Despite this, much remains unknown about sentence length …

[PDF][PDF] An incremental information-theoretic buffer supports sentence processing.

F Mollica, S Piantadosi - CogSci, 2017 - mollicaf.github.io
People have the capability to process text three times faster than they would naturally read it,
yet many current theories of sentence processing rely on natural reading times as a proxy for …

Neuroscientific research on the Processing of Easy Language

L Borghardt, S Deilen, J Fuchs, AK Gros… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In an increasingly networked world, people who cannot participate in written communication
are particularly at risk of social exclusion. Like other concepts of barrier-free communication …

Keep clam and carry on: Misperceptions of transposed-letter neighbours

RL Johnson, C Koch… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Previous research has provided evidence that readers experience processing difficulty
when reading words that have a transposed-letter (TL) neighbour (eg, TRAIL has the TL …

Capacity limits in sentence comprehension: Evidence from dual-task judgements and event-related potentials

T Brothers - Cognition, 2022 - Elsevier
There is an ongoing controversy over whether readers can access the meaning of multiple
words, simultaneously. To date, different experimental methods have generated seemingly …

Reading without spaces: The role of precise letter order

J Mirault, J Snell, J Grainger - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2019 - Springer
Prior research points to efficient identification of embedded words as a key factor in
facilitating the reading of text printed without spacing between words. Here we further tested …

Effects of individual differences in text exposure on sentence comprehension

A Stoops, JL Montag - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Linguistic experience plays a clear role in accounting for variability in sentence
comprehension behavior across individuals and across sentence types. We aimed to …

Middle-schoolers' reading and processing depth in response to digital and print media: An N400 study

K Froud, L Levinson, C Maddox, P Smith - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
We report the first use of ERP measures to identify text engagement differences when
reading digitally or in print. Depth of semantic encoding is key for reading comprehension …

Emotional context and predictability in naturalistic reading aloud.

JM Alexander, GA Buzzell - Emotion, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
A robust experimental literature has found that word frequency and lexical valence
contribute to visual word processing at the level of the individual word. Extensions of this …

Measurement reliability of individual differences in sentence processing: A cross-methodological reading corpus and Bayesian analysis.

P Haller, I Koncic, D Reich, LA Jäger - 2023 - osf.io
Psycholinguistic theories generally assume similar cognitive mechanisms across different
speakers. Recently, however, researchers have pointed out the need to account for …