Psychology 2134A/B Lecture Notes - Eye Tracking, Context-Dependent Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Marc Joanisse

Document Summary

Autonomous theory predicts that top down effects will occur later. Contextual effects occur post processing after our initial parse. Connectionists propose that multiple syntactic structures are activated t once. The one with the strongest activation wins out as our response. Constraint on activation is caused by sense biases and contextual information. Eye tracking is a more effective procedure than self paced reading. Self paced reading is very slow and unnatural; it does not effectively examine people"s ability to parse a sentence. If we recall from last lecture, minimal attachment is a form of online processing. As such, simplicity is a key feature of minimal attachment and it prefers direct objects to sentences compliments. For example mary suspected the man : do = from calgary. , so= was from calgary. Frazier & rainer showed these same sentences to people and tracked their eye movements. They discovered that people looked longer at the was in the second sentence.