Xu Liling, Liu Sui, Wang Suiping, Sun Dongxia, Li Nan
School of Foreign Studies, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China.
Philosophy and Social Science Laboratory of Reading and Development in Children and Adolescents (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China.
Front Psychol. 2022 Mar 23;13:849351. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.849351. eCollection 2022.
The processing of words in sentence reading is influenced by both information from sentential context (the effect of predictability) and information from previewing upcoming words (the preview effect), but how both effects interact during online reading is not clear. In this study, we tested the interaction of predictability effect and the preview effect in predicting reading processing. In the experiment, sentence constraint was controlled using all high-constraint sentences as materials. We manipulated both the predictability of the target word in the sentence and the semantic relationship between the preview word and the target word as predictors of the semantic preview effect. The results showed that the semantic preview effect was present only when the target word had low-predictability in the sentence but was not observed when the target word had high-predictability in the sentence. The results suggest that contextual information in reading can modulate the pre-activation of words and thus influence whether the preview word has a priming effect. The results of this study provide further evidence that reading comprehension involves an interactive system of processing multiple sources of information at multiple levels.
句子阅读中单词的处理受到来自句子语境的信息（可预测性效应）和来自预览即将出现的单词的信息（预览效应）的影响，但在在线阅读过程中这两种效应如何相互作用尚不清楚。在本研究中，我们测试了可预测性效应和预览效应在预测阅读处理中的相互作用。在实验中，使用所有高约束性句子作为材料来控制句子约束。我们将句子中目标词的可预测性以及预览词与目标词之间的语义关系作为语义预览效应的预测指标进行操纵。结果表明，语义预览效应仅在句子中目标词具有低可预测性时出现，而在句子中目标词具有高可预测性时未观察到。结果表明，阅读中的语境信息可以调节单词的预激活，从而影响预览词是否具有启动效应。本研究结果提供了进一步的证据，表明阅读理解涉及一个在多个层面处理多个信息源的交互式系统。
