Using the Visual World Paradigm to Study Retrieval Interference in Spoken Language Comprehension.

ABSTRACT: The cue-based retrieval theory (Lewis et al., 2006) predicts that interference from similar distractors should create difficulty for argument integration, however this hypothesis has only been examined in the written modality. The current study uses the Visual World Paradigm (VWP) to assess its feasibility to study retrieval interference arising from distractors present in a visual display during spoken language comprehension. The study aims to extend findings from Van Dyke and McElree (2006), which utilized a dual-task paradigm with written sentences in which they manipulated the relationship between extra-sentential distractors and the semantic retrieval cues from a verb, to the spoken modality. Results indicate that retrieval interference effects do occur in the spoken modality, manifes

SUBMITTER: Sekerina IA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4905981 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature