'eð-ffi; Foregrounding Effects Ðuring Reading, Revisited

Previous researchers have argued that objects associated with a protagonist may be or held active, in memory. This study expanded on previous work by foregrounded, to investigate the ef1ècts of protagonist association using an inconsistency paradigm on object accessibilìty. Readers experienced more processing diffrculty when a target sentence contradicted previously presented information about protagonlst­ associated objects than when the contradiction peltained to protagonist-dissociated objects. However, the results of a naming time study demonstrated that this effect was due to increases in accessibility of protagonist-associated objects, not continued increases in availability. A final experiment demonstlated that degree of association between the object and the protagonist does not influence objeot accessibility. The re­ sults provide additional evidence for, and a more refined explanation of, foreground­ ing eÎ1'ects during rcading.