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Titel: On the predictability of event boundaries in discourse : An ERP investigation
VerfasserIn: Delogu, Francesca
Drenhaus, Heiner
Crocker, Matthew W.
Sprache: Englisch
Titel: Memory & Cognition
Bandnummer: 46 (2018)
Heft: 2
Seiten: 315–325
Verlag/Plattform: Springer Nature
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Freie Schlagwörter: Situation models
Event boundaries
Event Segmentation Theory
Model updating
ERPs
DDC-Sachgruppe: 100 Philosophie
Dokumenttyp: Journalartikel / Zeitschriftenartikel
Abstract: When reading a text describing an everyday activity, comprehenders build a model of the situation described that includes prior knowledge of the entities, locations, and sequences of actions that typically occur within the event. Previous work has demonstrated that such knowledge guides the processing of incoming information by making event boundaries more or less expected. In the present ERP study, we investigated whether comprehenders’ expectations about event boundaries are influenced by how elaborately common events are described in the context. Participants read short stories in which a common activity (e.g., washing the dishes) was described either in brief or in an elaborate manner. The final sentence contained a target word referring to a more predictable action marking a fine event boundary (e.g., drying) or a less predictable action, marking a coarse event boundary (e.g., jogging). The results revealed a larger N400 effect for coarse event boundaries compared to fine event boundaries, but no interaction with description length. Between 600 and 1000 ms, however, elaborate contexts elicited a larger frontal positivity compared to brief contexts. This effect was largely driven by less predictable targets, marking coarse event boundaries. We interpret the P600 effect as indexing the updating of the situation model at event boundaries, consistent with Event Segmentation Theory (EST). The updating process is more demanding with coarse event boundaries, which presumably require the construction of a new situation model.
DOI der Erstveröffentlichung: 10.3758/s13421-017-0766-4
URL der Erstveröffentlichung: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13421-017-0766-4
Link zu diesem Datensatz: urn:nbn:de:bsz:291--ds-380355
hdl:20.500.11880/34370
http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-38035
ISSN: 1532-5946
0090-502X
Datum des Eintrags: 16-Nov-2022
Bezeichnung des in Beziehung stehenden Objekts: Electronic supplementary material
In Beziehung stehendes Objekt: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.3758%2Fs13421-017-0766-4/MediaObjects/13421_2017_766_MOESM1_ESM.pdf
Fakultät: P - Philosophische Fakultät
Fachrichtung: P - Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie
Professur: P - Prof. Dr. Matthew W. Crocker
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