Eye Movement Evidence for Hierarchy Effects on Memory Representation of Discourses

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0147313

	Eye Movement Evidence for Hierarchy Effects on Memory Representation of Discourses
	Wu, Yingying 1,2; Yang, Xiaohong1 ; Yang, Yufang1
摘要	In this study, we applied the text-change paradigm to investigate whether and how discourse hierarchy affected the memory representation of a discourse. Three kinds of three-sentence discourses were constructed. In the hierarchy-high condition and the hierarchy-low condition, the three sentences of the discourses were hierarchically organized and the last sentence of each discourse was located at the high level and the low level of the discourse hierarchy, respectively. In the linear condition, the three sentences of the discourses were linearly organized. Critical words were always located at the last sentence of the discourses. These discourses were successively presented twice and the critical words were changed to semantically related words in the second presentation. The results showed that during the early processing stage, the critical words were read for longer times when they were changed in the hierarchy-high and the linear conditions, but not in the hierarchy-low condition. During the late processing stage, the changed-critical words were again found to induce longer reading times only when they were in the hierarchy-high condition. These results suggest that words in a discourse have better memory representation when they are located at the higher rather than at the lower level of the discourse hierarchy. Global discourse hierarchy is established as an important factor in constructing the mental representation of a discourse.
	2016-01-20
语种	英语
DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0147313
发表期刊	PLOS ONE
ISSN	1932-6203
卷号	11 期号:1 页码:1-9
期刊论文类型	Article
收录类别	SCI ; SSCI
WOS关键词	RHETORICAL STRUCTURE ; LINGUISTIC FOCUS ; INFORMATION ; FIXATIONS ; ATTENTION ; SENTENCES ; CHINESE ; SCENES ; DEPTH
WOS标题词	Science & Technology
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000368529100077
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China(61433018 ; 31400968)
引用统计	被引频次：1[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/19470
专题	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
第一作者单位	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wu, Yingying,Yang, Xiaohong,Yang, Yufang. Eye Movement Evidence for Hierarchy Effects on Memory Representation of Discourses[J]. PLOS ONE,2016,11(1):1-9.
APA	Wu, Yingying,Yang, Xiaohong,&Yang, Yufang.(2016).Eye Movement Evidence for Hierarchy Effects on Memory Representation of Discourses.PLOS ONE,11(1),1-9.
MLA	Wu, Yingying,et al."Eye Movement Evidence for Hierarchy Effects on Memory Representation of Discourses".PLOS ONE 11.1(2016):1-9.

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