Oral reading promotes predictive processing in Chinese sentence reading: eye movement evidence.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Fluent sentence reading is widely acknowledged to depend on top-down contextual prediction, wherein sentential and contextual cues guide the pre-activation of linguistic representations before encountering stimuli, facilitating subsequent comprehension. The Prediction-by-Production hypothesis posits an explanation for predictive processes in language comprehension, suggesting that prediction during comprehension involves processes associated with language production. However, there is a lack of eye movement evidence supporting this hypothesis within sentence reading contexts. Thus, we manipulated reading mode and word predictability to examine the influence of language production on predictive processing.

Methods

Participants engaged in silent or oral reading of s

SUBMITTER: Chang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11491060 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature