Explicit (Not Implicit) Attitudes Mediate the Focus of Attention During Sentence Processing.

ABSTRACT: Many studies showed that comprehenders monitor changes in protagonists' emotions and actions. This article reports two experiments that explored how focusing comprehenders' attention on a particular property of the protagonist dimension (e.g., emotional or action state) affects the accessibility of information about target objects mentioned in the sentence. Furthermore, the present research examined whether participants' attitudes toward the issues described in the sentence can modulate comprehension processes. To this end, we asked participants to read sentences about environmental issues that focused comprehenders' attention on different mental and physical attributes of the same entities (protagonists and objects) and then self-report their own thoughts on the topic of environment by re

SUBMITTER: Horchak OV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7786004 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature