How People Extract Information from Graphs: Evidence from a Sentence-Graph Verification Paradigm
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Graph comprehension is constrained by the goals of the cognitive system that processes the graph and by the context in which the graph appears. In this paper we report the results of a study using a sentence-graph verification paradigm. We recorded participants’ reaction times to indicate whether the information contained in a simple bar graph matched a written description of the graph. Aside from the consistency of visual and verbal information, we manipulated whether the graph was ascending or descending, the relational term in the verbal description, and the labels of the bars of the graph. Our results showed that the biggest source of variance in people’s reaction times is whether the order in which the referents appear in the graph is the same as the order in which they appear in the sentence. The implications of this finding for contemporary theories of graph comprehension are discussed.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000