TY  - JOUR
A1  - Paape, Dario
A1  - Vasishth, Shravan
T1  - Local Coherence and Preemptive Digging-in Effects in German
JF  - Language and speech
N2  - SOPARSE predicts so-called local coherence effects: locally plausible but globally impossible parses of substrings can exert a distracting influence during sentence processing. Additionally, it predicts digging-in effects: the longer the parser stays committed to a particular analysis, the harder it becomes to inhibit that analysis. We investigated the interaction of these two predictions using German sentences. Results from a self-paced reading study show that the processing difficulty caused by a local coherence can be reduced by first allowing the globally correct parse to become entrenched, which supports SOPARSE’s assumptions.
KW  - Local coherence
KW  - digging-in effects
KW  - self-paced reading
KW  - SOPARSE
KW  - sentence processing
KW  - German
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830915608410
SN  - 0023-8309
SN  - 1756-6053
VL  - 59
SP  - 387
EP  - 403
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Paape, Dario L. J. F.
A1  - Vasishth, Shravan
T1  - Local coherence and preemptive digging-in effects in German
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - SOPARSE predicts so-called local coherence effects: locally plausible but globally impossible parses of substrings can exert a distracting influence during sentence processing. Additionally, it predicts digging-in effects: the longer the parser stays committed to a particular analysis, the harder it becomes to inhibit that analysis. We investigated the interaction of these two predictions using German sentences. Results from a self-paced reading study show that the processing difficulty caused by a local coherence can be reduced by first allowing the globally correct parse to become entrenched, which supports SOPARSE’s assumptions.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 417 
KW  - local coherence
KW  - digging-in effects
KW  - self-paced reading
KW  - SOPARSE
KW  - sentence processing
KW  - German
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-405337
IS  - 417
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Nicenboim, Bruno
A1  - Logacev, Pavel
A1  - Gattei, Carolina
A1  - Vasishth, Shravan
T1  - When High-Capacity Readers Slow Down and Low-Capacity Readers Speed Up
BT  - Working Memory and Locality Effects
N2  - We examined the effects of argument-head distance in SVO and SOV languages (Spanish and German), while taking into account readers' working memory capacity and controlling for expectation (Levy, 2008) and other factors. We predicted only locality effects, that is, a slowdown produced by increased dependency distance (Gibson, 2000; Lewis and Vasishth, 2005). Furthermore, we expected stronger locality effects for readers with low working memory capacity. Contrary to our predictions, low-capacity readers showed faster reading with increased distance, while high-capacity readers showed locality effects. We suggest that while the locality effects are compatible with memory-based explanations, the speedup of low-capacity readers can be explained by an increased probability of retrieval failure. We present a computational model based on ACT-R built under the previous assumptions, which is able to give a qualitative account for the present data and can be tested in future research. Our results suggest that in some cases, interpreting longer RTs as indexing increased processing difficulty and shorter RTs as facilitation may be too simplistic: The same increase in processing difficulty may lead to slowdowns in high-capacity readers and speedups in low-capacity ones. Ignoring individual level capacity differences when investigating locality effects may lead to misleading conclusions.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 288 
KW  - locality
KW  - working memory capacity
KW  - individual differences
KW  - Spanish
KW  - German
KW  - ACT-R
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-90663
SP  - 1
EP  - 24
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Nicenboim, Bruno
A1  - Logacev, Pavel
A1  - Gattei, Carolina
A1  - Vasishth, Shravan
T1  - When High-Capacity Readers Slow Down and Low-Capacity Readers Speed Up
BT  - Working Memory and Locality Effects
JF  - Frontiers in psychology
N2  - We examined the effects of argument-head distance in SVO and SOV languages (Spanish and German), while taking into account readers' working memory capacity and controlling for expectation (Levy, 2008) and other factors. We predicted only locality effects, that is, a slowdown produced by increased dependency distance (Gibson, 2000; Lewis and Vasishth, 2005). Furthermore, we expected stronger locality effects for readers with low working memory capacity. Contrary to our predictions, low-capacity readers showed faster reading with increased distance, while high-capacity readers showed locality effects. We suggest that while the locality effects are compatible with memory-based explanations, the speedup of low-capacity readers can be explained by an increased probability of retrieval failure. We present a computational model based on ACT-R built under the previous assumptions, which is able to give a qualitative account for the present data and can be tested in future research. Our results suggest that in some cases, interpreting longer RTs as indexing increased processing difficulty and shorter RTs as facilitation may be too simplistic: The same increase in processing difficulty may lead to slowdowns in high-capacity readers and speedups in low-capacity ones. Ignoring individual level capacity differences when investigating locality effects may lead to misleading conclusions.
KW  - locality
KW  - working memory capacity
KW  - individual differences
KW  - Spanish
KW  - German
KW  - ACT-R
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00280
SN  - 1664-1078
VL  - 7
SP  - 1
EP  - 24
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -