Identifying Context-Dependent Modes of Reading
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چکیده
Reading time is commonly used as a basis for the study of reading. It has been observed in previous studies that unexpected sentences initiating a new context in a body of text considerably increases its reading time. There are two general accounts of the mechanism behind this slowdown. The first views reading, both slow and fast, to be a single, continuous process. The second views reading as consisting of multiple, distinct modes of processing. We consider in this paper the problem of distinguishing between these two accounts. To do so, we present a new kind of statistical analysis of data obtained from two different experiments on reading time. Our analysis supports the two-mode account of reading slowdown.
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