Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants
Event structure guides reading behavior as revealed by eye movements
Department
Psychology Department
College
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Date Range
2013-2014
Disciplines
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Abstract
Individuals segment information in narrative texts into discrete events, with distinct boundaries between those events. How might event structure affect reading behavior? The present study examines whether eye-movements during discourse comprehension reveal how readers respond online to event structure. In two experiments, reading times were slower for event boundaries, according to multiple measures, and regressions varied by event structure. Working memory capacity interacted with reading effects, showing a larger processing load from event boundaries.
Conference Name
Society for Text & Discourse
Conference Location
Valencia, Spain
ScholarWorks Citation
Kurby, Christopher A. and Swets, Ben, "Event structure guides reading behavior as revealed by eye movements" (2014). Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants. 865.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/fsdg/865
