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Staub, Adrian; Dillon, Brian; Clifton, Charles, Jr. – Cognitive Science, 2017
Two experiments used eyetracking during reading to examine the processing of the matrix verb following object and subject relative clauses. The experiments show that the processing of the matrix verb following an object relative is indeed slowed compared to the processing of the same verb following a subject relative. However, this difficulty is…
Descriptors: Verbs, Reading Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Sentences
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Bogartz, Richard S.; Staub, Adrian – Cognition, 2012
In three experimental tasks Stephen and Mirman (2010) measured gaze steps, the distance in pixels between gaze positions on successive samples from an eyetracker. They argued that the distribution of gaze steps is best fit by the lognormal distribution, and based on this analysis they concluded that interactive cognitive processes underlie eye…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Cognitive Processes, Experiments, Task Analysis
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Drieghe, Denis; Pollatsek, Alexander; Staub, Adrian; Rayner, Keith – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
The distribution of landing positions and durations of first fixations in a region containing a noun preceded by either an article (e.g., the soldiers) or a high-frequency 3-letter word (e.g., all soldiers) were compared. Although there were fewer first fixations on the blank space between the high-frequency 3-letter word and the noun than on the…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Nouns, Human Body, Reading Processes
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Staub, Adrian; Rayner, Keith; Pollatsek, Alexander; Hyona, Jukka; Majewski, Helen – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2007
Readers' eye movements were monitored as they read sentences containing noun-noun compounds that varied in frequency (e.g., elevator mechanic, mountain lion). The left constituent of the compound was either plausible or implausible as a head noun at the point at which it appeared, whereas the compound as a whole was always plausible. When the head…
Descriptors: Sentences, Eye Movements, Nouns, Experiments
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Staub, Adrian – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
Two eye movement experiments examined effects on syntactic reanalysis when the correct analysis was briefly entertained at an earlier point in the sentence. In Experiment 1, participants read sentences containing a noun phrase coordination/clausal coordination ambiguity, while in Experiment 2 they read sentences containing a subordinate clause…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Sentences, Nouns, Eye Movements
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Staub, Adrian – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2007
Several previous studies (B. C. Adams, C. Clifton, & D. C. Mitchell, 1998; D. C. Mitchell, 1987; R. P. G. van Gompel & M. J. Pickering, 2001) have explored the question of whether the parser initially analyzes a noun phrase that follows an intransitive verb as the verb's direct object. Three eye-tracking experiments examined this issue in more…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Language Processing, Phrase Structure