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Storytime Paradigm: Bottom-Up Cues ...
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Abstract:
When listening to speech, adults often rely on context to anticipate upcoming words. Consistent with this, adult N400 responses largely reflect a word’s predictability given the semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic constraints of the context (Kutas & Federmeier, 2011). However, we know far less about how bottom-up and top-down, contextual constraints affect lexical access in children or how these may be reflected in their N400 responses. In a prior study (Levari & Snedeker, 2018), we explored lexical access in a naturalistic context, in adults and 5-10-year-old children. Participants listened to a story as ERPs time-locked to the onset of every word were recorded. Each content word was coded for frequency, semantic relatedness (LSA), and cloze probability. In both children and adults, the N400 was predicted by cloze probability when controlling for frequency and semantic association. Children’s N400’s also varied with word frequency, while adults’ did not. The current preregistration is for follow-up ...
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Cognitive Psychology; Developmental Psychology; FOS Languages and literature; FOS Psychology; Linguistics; Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics; Psychology; Social and Behavioral Sciences
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/mn5p7
https://osf.io/mn5p7/
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