JLP374H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Executive Functions, Stroop Effect, Kindergarten
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Jlp374 l e ct u r e 5: se nt en ce pr oc es s i ng, p ar t 2. Proposal: the processor doesn"t just take in bottom-up information, but will make predictions about what"s about to unfold. Language processing system will put together girl vs. man with the word ride to make a prediction about what will come next o. Fixations will determine what the participant thinks the unfolding word will be (more looks to carousel when hearing girl and more looks to bike when hearing man ) The man has drunk : we"ll look at the empty glass of wine since the sentence is in the past tense, meaning the event has already happened o. The empty glass of wine is consistent with an event of drinking in the past. The tense of the verb gives evidence that all elements of the sentence are considered. We don"t just simply activate lexical representations in our mind.
