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Maksim Markevich, Anastasiia Streltsova, Daniela Zambarbieri
Successful reading comprehension depends on many factors, including text genre. Eye-tracking studies indicate that genre shapes eye movement patterns at a local level. Although the reading of expository and narrative texts by adolescents has been described in the literature, the reading of poetry by adolescents remains…
Apostolos Kargiotidis, George Manolitsis, Diamanto N. Filippatou
The present longitudinal retrospective study examined in a sample of 123 Greek-speaking children whether the raw score growth in a broad range of oral language and reading skills from Grade 1 to Grade 3 differs among children with persistent reading comprehension difficulties (pRCD; N = 49) identified in Grade 3, those…
Miho Fuyama, Rosario Lo Franco
When reading a novel or poem, readers sometimes gain comprehension or experiences that cannot be expressed in language yet are felt as holistic. Previous studies focused on the linguistically expressible aspects of text comprehension. In this study, we propose a new hypothesis, the purification comprehension…
Miranda-Espinoza Jonathan Eduardo, Contreras-Saavedra Carla Elizabeth, María Jesús Sánchez-Cortés
1## Introduction Reading comprehension is a key competence in the academic and professional training of higher education students, since it allows them to access, process, interpret and critically evaluate information from various textual sources, especially in the framework of disciplinary studies. This skill is…
Scott Crossley, Joon Suh Choi, Kenny Tang, Laurie Cutting
This study documents and assesses the Tool for Automatic Analysis of Decoding Ambiguity (TAADA). TAADA calculates measures related to decoding, including metrics for grapheme and phoneme counts, neighborhood effects, rhymes, and conditional probabilities for sound-spelling relationships. These measures are assessed in…
Lucas Y. H. Chan, Olaf Dimigen, Benjamin Gagl, Urs Maurer
Key neural mechanisms underlying reading, especially in the context of sentences and texts, remain elusive. An influential theory states that the brain rapidly generates a hierarchy of probabilistic predictions about upcoming words at multiple levels of linguistic representation. When encountering a word, a reader…
Bahaa Madi Tarabya, Asaid Khateb
While research on the predictors of reading and reading comprehension is extensive in child and in some adult populations, particularly in alphabetic languages, few studies have examined such factors among Arabic-speaking adults. This study examined the extent to which the same linguistic and cognitive predictors…
Xin Qian, Dazhen Deng, Zhaoping He, Xingbo Wang + 2 more
Knowledge-intensive text usually contains fruitful entities and complex relationships, such as academic articles and scientific exposition. Reading and comprehending such texts often demands considerable time and mental effort to track the relationships between entities. To reduce the burden, we present GraphTide, a…
Yewulsew Godie Gela, Birtukan Gizachew Ayal, Dawit Dibekulu
Three participants explicitly contrasted short stories with actual foreign language text, describing the latter as fact-based, less engaging and similar to other academic subjects. For instance, respondents responded, “The reading texts used in the actual classroom felt like other natural science content and didn’t…
de Langis, Karin, Öncel, Püren + 10 more
Leveraging a dataset of paired narratives, we investigate the extent to which large language models (LLMs) can reliably separate incoherent and coherent stories. A probing study finds that LLMs' internal representations can reliably identify incoherent narratives. However, LLMs generate responses to rating questions…
Huidong Xue, Filipp Dokienko, Francesco Gentile, Bernadette M. Jansma
People segment ongoing information into meaningful mental representations known as events. Recent studies have found a spatio-temporal hierarchy in the event structure during movie watching and story listening. How the human brain segments stories while reading remains unclear. We examined event segmentation while…
Catarina G Belem, Parker Glenn, Alfy Samuel, Anoop Kumar + 1 more
Automatic readability assessment plays a key role in ensuring effective and accessible written communication. Despite significant progress, the field is hindered by inconsistent definitions of readability and measurements that rely on surface-level text properties. In this work, we investigate the factors shaping human…
Thomas Hikaru Clark, Roger Levy, Edward Gibson
A key question in psycholinguistics is how inferences about the meaning of linguistic input unfold incrementally a comprehender's mind. In this work, we study reading dynamics for ``noisy-channel garden-path'' sentences, which temporarily appear well-formed but feature late-appearing violations of expectation that can…
Jenna Hooper, Julia Dengler, David Basilico, Matthew Nelson
Sentence comprehension requires the incremental construction of syntactic structure and semantic interpretation. Prior neural work (25) identified key neural events at major phrase boundaries during sentence comprehension. To investigate a behavioral correlation of these processes, we used self-paced reading to examine…
Andrea Gregor de Varda, Yevgeni Berzak, Evelina Fedorenko, Roger Levy
Human language processing can be studied through both behavior and brain activity, yet it remains unclear whether these two data types reflect sensitivity to the same information. One influential view holds that both behavioral and neural responses are largely determined by processing effort, often estimated by word…
Aline-Priscillia Messi, Abir Bhuyain, Liina Pylkkanen
How the brain constructs meaning across extended contexts remains poorly understood. While neural responses to words and sentences are well characterized, much less is known about the brain mechanisms supporting narrative comprehension. Sentence-level studies suggest that neural activation increases as word meanings…
Kangyu Yuan, Guanzheng Chen, Sizhe Liang, Hehai Lin + 4 more
Critical news reading (CNR), which requires grasping the holistic ideas of and raising critical thoughts on the news, is beneficial yet challenging for general people who usually get information on daily social media. Comments under the news can aid CNR by providing complementary information and other readers' diverse…
Arran Zeyu Wang, Fuling Sun, Danielle Albers Szafir
Visualizations and text often work together to support effective data communication. Despite this common paradigm, we know little about how the interplay of these modalities affects people's data comprehension. We present a novel experimental paradigm to investigate multimodal data comprehension---the process of people…
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Iron, the most abundant element on Earth by mass (34.6%), primarily exists as iron minerals due to its inherent reactivity. The study of iron mineral phase transformations under changing environmental conditions remains an important research focus due to its geological, environmental, and industrial significance. Yet…