Semantic plausibility preferentially affects the semantic preview benefit in Chinese reading: evidence from an eye-movement study

ABSTRACT:

Background

Numerous studies have confirmed that skilled readers can benefit from a semantically related preview word (i.e., semantic preview benefit, SPB), suggesting that readers can extract semantic information from the parafovea to achieve efficient reading. It is still under debate whether the occurrence of this benefit is because of the semantic association between the preview and target words or because of the contextual fit of the preview word in the sentence context.

Methods

Two independent factors, preview plausibility (preview plausible/implausible) and semantic relatedness (semantically related/unrelated), were manipulated, and we further strictly controlled for syntactic plausibility in the present study.

Results

The results showed that the first-pass

SUBMITTER: Zhang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10163867 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature