TY - JOUR A1 - Schotter, Elizabeth Roye A1 - Leinenger, Mallorie A1 - von der Malsburg, Titus Raban T1 - When your mind skips what your eyes fixate BT - how forced fixations lead to comprehension illusions in reading JF - Psychonomic bulletin & review : a journal of the Psychonomic Society N2 - The phenomenon of forced fixations suggests that readers sometimes fixate a word (due to oculomotor constraints) even though they intended to skip it (due to parafoveal cognitive-linguistic processing). We investigate whether this leads readers to look directly at a word but not pay attention to it. We used a gaze-contingent boundary paradigm to dissociate parafoveal and foveal information (e.g., the word phone changed to scarf once the reader's eyes moved to it) and asked questions about the sentence to determine which one the reader encoded. When the word was skipped or fixated only briefly (i.e., up to 100 ms) readers were more likely to report reading the parafoveal than the fixated word, suggesting that there are cases in which readers look directly at a word but their minds ignore it, leading to the illusion of reading something they did not fixate. KW - Word recognition KW - Text comprehension KW - Eye movements and reading Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1356-y SN - 1069-9384 SN - 1531-5320 VL - 25 IS - 5 SP - 1884 EP - 1890 PB - Springer CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schotter, Elizabeth Roye A1 - von der Malsburg, Titus Raban A1 - Leinenger, Mallorie T1 - Forced Fixations, Trans-Saccadic Integration, and Word Recognition BT - Evidence for a Hybrid Mechanism of Saccade Triggering in Reading JF - Journal of experimental psychology : Learning, memory, and cognition N2 - Recent studies using the gaze-contingent boundary paradigm reported a reversed preview benefit- shorter fixations on a target word when an unrelated preview was easier to process than the fixated target (Schotter & Leinenger, 2016). This is explained viaforeedfixatiotzs-short fixations on words that would ideally be skipped (because lexical processing has progressed enough) but could not be because saccade planning reached a point of no return. This contrasts with accounts of preview effects via trans-saccadic integration-shorter fixations on a target word when the preview is more similar to it (see Cutter. Drieghe, & Liversedge, 2015). In addition, if the previewed word-not the fixated target-determines subsequent eye movements, is it also this word that enters the linguistic processing stream? We tested these accounts by having 24 subjects read 150 sentences in the boundary paradigm in which both the preview and target were initially plausible but later one, both, or neither became implausible, providing an opportunity to probe which one was linguistically encoded. In an intervening buffer region, both words were plausible, providing an opportunity to investigate trans-saccadic integration. The frequency of the previewed word affected progressive saccades (i.e.. forced fixations) as well as when transsaccadic integration failure increased regressions, but, only the implausibility of the target word affected semantic encoding. These data support a hybrid account of saccadic control (Reingold, Reichle. Glaholt, & Sheridan, 2012) driven by incomplete (often parafoveal) word recognition, which occurs prior to complete (often foveal) word recognition. KW - parafoveal processing KW - word recognition KW - regressive saccades KW - eye movements KW - reading Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000617 SN - 0278-7393 SN - 1939-1285 VL - 45 IS - 4 SP - 677 EP - 688 PB - American Psychological Association CY - Washington ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Clahsen, Harald A1 - Siegmüller, Julia A1 - Penke, Martina A1 - Schröder, Astrid A1 - Hofmann, Janine A1 - Holzgrefe-Lang, Julia A1 - Skerra, Antje A1 - Adani, Flavia A1 - Gagarina, Natalʹja Vladimirovna A1 - Schröter, Carolin A1 - Frieg, Hendrike A1 - Belke, Eva A1 - Schwab, Susanne A1 - Seifert, Susanne A1 - Watko, Petra A1 - Obendrauf, Tanja A1 - Trauntschnig, Mike A1 - Gasteiger-Klicpera, Barbara A1 - Adelt, Anne A1 - Hanne, Sandra A1 - Burchert, Frank A1 - Swietza, Romy A1 - Doppelbauer, Lea A1 - Dralle, Jenny A1 - Purat, Patricia A1 - Webersinke, Dorothea A1 - Schwytay, Jeannine A1 - Stadie, Nicole A1 - Hoppe, Carina A1 - Heide, Judith A1 - Marusch, Tina A1 - von der Malsburg, Titus Raban A1 - Bastiaanse, Roelien A1 - Schultheiss, Corinna A1 - Nahrstaedt, Holger A1 - Schauer, Thomas A1 - Seidl, Rainer Ottis A1 - Rath, Elisa ED - Fritzsche, Tom ED - Meyer, Corinna B. ED - Adelt, Anne ED - Roß, Jennifer T1 - Spektrum Patholinguistik = Schwerpunktthema: Labyrinth Grammatik: Therapie von syntaktischen Störungen bei Kindern und Erwachsenen N2 - Das Herbsttreffen Patholinguistik wird seit 2007 jährlich vom Verband für Patholinguistik e.V. (vpl) durchgeführt. Das 6. Herbsttreffen mit dem Schwerpunktthema "Labyrinth Grammatik: Therapie von syntaktischen Störungen bei Kindern und Erwachsenen" fand am 17.11.2012 in Potsdam statt. Im vorliegenden Tagungsband finden sich alle Beiträge der Veranstaltung: die vier Hauptvorträge zum Schwerpunkthema, die Vorträge aus Praxis und Forschung von vier Patholinguistinnen in der Reihe Spektrum Patholinguistik sowie die Abstracts der Posterpräsentation. N2 - The 'Herbsttreffen Patholinguistik' is an annual conference organized by the Association for Patholinguistics (Verband für Patholinguistik e.V./vpl) since 2007. The 6th Herbsttreffen with its theme "Labyrinth Grammar: Therapy of Syntactic Disorders in Children and Adults" took place on November 17th, 2012 in Potsdam. These proceedings contain all contributions of the meeting: the four keynote talks, the talks on speech/language therapy and research in the section "Spektrum Patholinguistik" by four patholinguists as well as the abstracts of the poster session. T3 - Spektrum Patholinguistik - 6 KW - Patholinguistik KW - syntaktische Störungen KW - Aphasie KW - Agrammatismus KW - Dysgrammatismus KW - patholinguistics KW - speech/language therapy KW - syntactic disorders KW - aphasia KW - agrammatism Y1 - 2013 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-67659 SN - 978-3-86956-270-4 SN - 1869-3822 SN - 1866-9433 IS - 6 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stone, Kate A1 - von der Malsburg, Titus Raban A1 - Vasishth, Shravan T1 - The effect of decay and lexical uncertainty on processing long-distance dependencies in reading JF - PeerJ N2 - To make sense of a sentence, a reader must keep track of dependent relationships between words, such as between a verb and its particle (e.g. turn the music down). In languages such as German, verb-particle dependencies often span long distances, with the particle only appearing at the end of the clause. This means that it may be necessary to process a large amount of intervening sentence material before the full verb of the sentence is known. To facilitate processing, previous studies have shown that readers can preactivate the lexical information of neighbouring upcoming words, but less is known about whether such preactivation can be sustained over longer distances. We asked the question, do readers preactivate lexical information about long-distance verb particles? In one self-paced reading and one eye tracking experiment, we delayed the appearance of an obligatory verb particle that varied only in the predictability of its lexical identity. We additionally manipulated the length of the delay in order to test two contrasting accounts of dependency processing: that increased distance between dependent elements may sharpen expectation of the distant word and facilitate its processing (an antilocality effect), or that it may slow processing via temporal activation decay (a locality effect). We isolated decay by delaying the particle with a neutral noun modifier containing no information about the identity of the upcoming particle, and no known sources of interference or working memory load. Under the assumption that readers would preactivate the lexical representations of plausible verb particles, we hypothesised that a smaller number of plausible particles would lead to stronger preactivation of each particle, and thus higher predictability of the target. This in turn should have made predictable target particles more resistant to the effects of decay than less predictable target particles. The eye tracking experiment provided evidence that higher predictability did facilitate reading times, but found evidence against any effect of decay or its interaction with predictability. The self-paced reading study provided evidence against any effect of predictability or temporal decay, or their interaction. In sum, we provide evidence from eye movements that readers preactivate long-distance lexical content and that adding neutral sentence information does not induce detectable decay of this activation. The findings are consistent with accounts suggesting that delaying dependency resolution may only affect processing if the intervening information either confirms expectations or adds to working memory load, and that temporal activation decay alone may not be a major predictor of processing time. KW - reading KW - comprehension KW - temporal decay KW - preactivation KW - long distance KW - dependencies KW - entropy KW - psycholinguistics KW - locality KW - antilocality Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10438 SN - 2167-8359 VL - 8 PB - PeerJ Inc. CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Paape, Dario A1 - Vasishth, Shravan A1 - von der Malsburg, Titus Raban T1 - Quadruplex negatio invertit? BT - the on-line processing of depth charge sentences JF - Journal of semantics N2 - So-called "depth charge" sentences (No head injury is too trivial to be ignored) are interpreted by the vast majority of speakers to mean the opposite of what their compositional semantics would dictate. The semantic inversion that is observed for sentences of this type is the strongest and most persistent linguistic illusion known to the field (Wason & Reich, 1979). However, it has recently been argued that the preferred interpretation arises not because of a prevailing failure of the processing system, but rather because the non-compositional meaning is grammaticalized in the form of a stored construction (Cook & Stevenson, 2010; Fortuin, 2014). In a series of five experiments, we investigate whether the depth charge effect is better explained by processing failure due to memory overload (the overloading hypothesis) or by the existence of an underlying grammaticalized construction with two available meanings (the ambiguity hypothesis). To our knowledge, our experiments are the first to explore the on-line processing profile of depth charge sentences. Overall, the data are consistent with specific variants of the ambiguity and overloading hypotheses while providing evidence against other variants. As an extension of the overloading hypothesis, we suggest two heuristic processes that may ultimately yield the incorrect reading when compositional processing is suspended for strategic reasons. Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffaa009 SN - 0167-5133 SN - 1477-4593 VL - 37 IS - 4 SP - 509 EP - 555 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Metzner, Paul A1 - von der Malsburg, Titus Raban A1 - Vasishth, Shravan A1 - Roesler, Frank T1 - The Importance of Reading Naturally: Evidence From Combined Recordings of Eye Movements and Electric Brain Potentials JF - Cognitive science : a multidisciplinary journal of anthropology, artificial intelligence, education, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology ; journal of the Cognitive Science Society KW - Reading KW - Sentence comprehension KW - ERP KW - Eye movements KW - Regressions Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12384 SN - 0364-0213 SN - 1551-6709 VL - 41 SP - 1232 EP - 1263 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - THES A1 - von der Malsburg, Titus Raban T1 - Scanpath phenomena in reading : an investigation of scanpath effects in syntactic ambiguity resolution and in general reading Y1 - 2012 CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Marusch, Tina A1 - von der Malsburg, Titus Raban A1 - Bastiaanse, Roelien A1 - Burchert, Frank T1 - Tempusmorphologie bei deutschen Agrammatikern: Die Sprachproduktion von reguläten, irregulären und gemischten Verben Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - von der Malsburg, Titus Raban A1 - Angele, Bernhard T1 - False positives and other statistical errors in standard analyses of eye movements in reading JF - Journal of memory and language N2 - In research on eye movements in reading, it is common to analyze a number of canonical dependent measures to study how the effects of a manipulation unfold over time. Although this gives rise to the well-known multiple comparisons problem, i.e. an inflated probability that the null hypothesis is incorrectly rejected (Type I error), it is accepted standard practice not to apply any correction procedures. Instead, there appears to be a widespread belief that corrections are not necessary because the increase in false positives is too small to matter. To our knowledge, no formal argument has ever been presented to justify this assumption. Here, we report a computational investigation of this issue using Monte Carlo simulations. Our results show that, contrary to conventional wisdom, false positives are increased to unacceptable levels when no corrections are applied. Our simulations also show that counter-measures like the Bonferroni correction keep false positives in check while reducing statistical power only moderately. Hence, there is little reason why such corrections should not be made a standard requirement. Further, we discuss three statistical illusions that can arise when statistical power is low, and we show how power can be improved to prevent these illusions. In sum, our work renders a detailed picture of the various types of statistical errors than can occur in studies of reading behavior and we provide concrete guidance about how these errors can be avoided. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. KW - Statistics KW - False positives KW - Null-hypothesis testing KW - Eye-tracking KW - Reading KW - Sentence processing Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2016.10.003 SN - 0749-596X SN - 1096-0821 VL - 94 SP - 119 EP - 133 PB - Elsevier CY - San Diego ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Metzner, Paul-Philipp A1 - von der Malsburg, Titus Raban A1 - Vasishth, Shravan A1 - Rösler, Frank T1 - Brain Responses to World Knowledge Violations: A Comparison of Stimulus- and Fixation-triggered Event-related Potentials and Neural Oscillations JF - Journal of cognitive neuroscience N2 - Recent research has shown that brain potentials time-locked to fixations in natural reading can be similar to brain potentials recorded during rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP). We attempted two replications of Hagoort, Hald, Bastiaansen, and Petersson [Hagoort, P., Hald, L., Bastiaansen, M., & Petersson, K. M. Integration of word meaning and world knowledge in language comprehension. Science, 304, 438-441, 2004] to determine whether this correspondence also holds for oscillatory brain responses. Hagoort et al. reported an N400 effect and synchronization in the theta and gamma range following world knowledge violations. Our first experiment (n = 32) used RSVP and replicated both the N400 effect in the ERPs and the power increase in the theta range in the time-frequency domain. In the second experiment (n = 49), participants read the same materials freely while their eye movements and their EEG were monitored. First fixation durations, gaze durations, and regression rates were increased, and the ERP showed an N400 effect. An analysis of time-frequency representations showed synchronization in the delta range (1-3 Hz) and desynchronization in the upper alpha range (11-13 Hz) but no theta or gamma effects. The results suggest that oscillatory EEG changes elicited by world knowledge violations are different in natural reading and RSVP. This may reflect differences in how representations are constructed and retrieved from memory in the two presentation modes. Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00731 SN - 0898-929X SN - 1530-8898 VL - 27 IS - 5 SP - 1017 EP - 1028 PB - MIT Press CY - Cambridge ER -