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Cranford, Edward A.; Moss, Jarrod – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
When a situation could lead to multiple mutually exclusive consequences, recent research shows that people automatically generate multiple predictive inferences in memory. Several theoretical mechanisms have been proposed to account for the generation of predictive inferences. One hypothesis is that inferences are minimally encoded, represented…
Descriptors: Prediction, Inferences, Cognitive Processes, Semantics
Amir Mahshanian; Mohammadtaghi Shahnazari; Ahmad Moinzadeh – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2025
This study investigated the relationship between working memory (WM), semantic-encoding (SE) ability, and reading comprehension (RC) within the domain of second language acquisition (L2). 120 L1-Persian EFL learners were placed in three proficiency groups (beginning, intermediate, and advanced) based on their scores on the IELTS test. The…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Semantics, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning
Smith, Maverick E.; Kurby, Christopher A.; Bailey, Heather R. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
We segment what we read into meaningful events, each separated by a discrete boundary. How does event segmentation during encoding relate to the structure of story information in long-term memory? To evaluate this question, participants read stories of fictional historical events and then engaged in a postreading verb arrangement task. In this…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Short Term Memory, Recall (Psychology), Verbs
Carolyn Baker; Tracy Love – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Lexical processing impairments such as delayed and reduced activation of lexical-semantic information have been linked to syntactic processing disruptions and sentence comprehension deficits in individuals with aphasia (IWAs). Lexical-level deficits can also preclude successful lexical encoding during sentence processing and amplify the…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Semantics, Networks, Language Processing
Eunsoo Cho; Unhee Ju; Eun Ha Kim; Minhye Lee; Garam Lee; Donald L. Compton – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2023
Purpose: We examined the extent to which achievement goals predict reading comprehension, measured by two response formats (free recall and constructed response), and how these relations differ for students with and without reading difficulties (RD). We further explored how executive functions (working memory and semantic verbal fluency) mediate…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Goal Orientation, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
Schneider, J.M.; Abel, A.D.; Maguire, M.J. – Language Learning and Development, 2023
Socioeconomic status (SES)-related language gaps are known to widen throughout the course of the school years; however, not all children from lower SES homes perform worse than their higher SES peers on measures of language. The current study uses mediation and moderated mediation to examine how cognitive and language abilities (vocabulary,…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Socioeconomic Status, Inferences
Corlatescu, Dragos-Georgian; Dascalu, Mihai; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Reading comprehension is key to knowledge acquisition and to reinforcing memory for previous information. While reading, a mental representation is constructed in the reader's mind. The mental model comprises the words in the text, the relations between the words, and inferences linking to concepts in prior knowledge. The automated model of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Memory, Schemata (Cognition)
Supakit Thiamtawan; Nattama Pongpairoj – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2023
This study examined the effects of working memory (WM), structure, and salience on the processing of English relative clauses (RCs) and participial reduced relative clauses (PRRCs) by L1 Thai learners. Salience in this research is the phonological alterations required for irregular verbs to inflect into the past participial form. The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Eunsoo Cho; Unhee Ju; Eun Ha Kim; Minhye Lee; Garam Lee; Donald L. Compton – Grantee Submission, 2022
Purpose: We examined the extent to which achievement goals predict reading comprehension, measured by two response formats (free recall and constructed response), and how these relations differ for students with and without reading difficulties (RD). We further explored how executive functions (working memory and semantic verbal fluency) mediate…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Goal Orientation, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
Perfetti, Charles; Helder, Anne – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
The study of word-to-text integration (WTI) provides a window on incremental processes that link the meaning of a word to the preceding text. We review a research program using event-related potential indicators of WTI at sentence beginnings, thus localizing sources of integration to prior text meaning independently of the current sentence. The…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Reading Processes, Cognitive Processes
Dong, Yang; Chow, Bonnie Wing-Yin; Mo, Jianhong; Zheng, Hao-Yuan; Wu, Sammy Xiao-Ying; Yang, Jie – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
This study compared the sentence hyperbole comprehension performance of Chinese poor readers with various levels of arithmetic proficiency. A total of 168 Chinese poor readers in Grade 1 were recruited, and their nonverbal intelligence, verbal working memory, Chinese receptive vocabulary, Chinese grammatical knowledge, character reading and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sentences, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
Macdonald, Ross; Brandt, Silke; Theakston, Anna; Lieven, Elena; Serratrice, Ludovica – Cognitive Science, 2020
Subject relative clauses (SRCs) are typically processed more easily than object relative clauses (ORCs), but this difference is diminished by an inanimate head-noun in semantically non-reversible ORCs ("The book that the boy is reading"). In two eye-tracking experiments, we investigated the influence of animacy on online processing of…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Sentences, Semantics
Corlatescu, Dragos-Georgian; Dascalu, Mihai; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Reading comprehension is key to knowledge acquisition and to reinforcing memory for previous information. While reading, a mental representation is constructed in the reader's mind. The mental model comprises the words in the text, the relations between the words, and inferences linking to concepts in prior knowledge. The automated model of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Memory, Inferences, Syntax
Costa Ferreira, Jullyane Glaicy da; Ferrari-Neto, José – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
The aim of the present work was to investigate the processing of coreferential relations, focusing on their relationship with the working memory. In a reading process, it is essential that readers continuously perform mental operations that involve the working memory, such as storing, retrieving, and manipulating information. For this reason, it…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Language Processing, Reading Processes, Language Variation
Fong, Cathy Yui-Chi – Infant and Child Development, 2023
The present study aimed to examine the role of phonological--semantic flexibility (PSF) in learning to read Chinese. PSF refers to a specific flexibility applied to process the dual linguistic dimensions of words (i.e., sound and meaning). A correlational study (Study 1) was conducted to determine the unique contribution of PSF to three aspects of…
Descriptors: Phonology, Semantics, Reading Processes, Chinese