Baker-Kukona, Anuenue ORCID: 0000-0003-4377-3057 and Hasshim, Nabil (2024) Mouse cursor trajectories capture the flexible adaptivity of predictive sentence processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. ISSN 0278-7393 (Print), 1939-1285 (Online) (In Press)

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Abstract

Recent psycholinguistic findings raise fundamental questions about comprehenders’ ability to rationally adapt their predictions during sentence processing. Two mouse cursor tracking experiments (each N = 85) assessed this adaptivity by manipulating the reliability of verb-based semantic cues. In Experiment 1, predictive mouse cursor movements to targets (e.g., bike) vs. distractors (e.g., kite) were measured while participants heard equal proportions of non-predictive (e.g., “spot … the bike”), predictive (e.g., “ride … the bike”) and anti-predictive (e.g., “fly … the bike”) sentences. In Experiment 2, participants heard equal proportions of non-predictive and anti-predictive sentences. Participants were observed to flexibly adapt their predictions, such that they disengaged prediction in Experiment 1 when verb-based cues were unreliable and as likely to be disconfirmed as confirmed, while they generated adapted predictions in Experiment 2 when verb-based cues were reliably disconfirmed. However, links to individual differences in cognitive control were not observed. These results are interpreted as supporting rational theoretical approaches.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	adaptation, mouse cursor tracking, prediction, rationality, sentence processing
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > Institute for Lifecourse Development Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > Institute for Lifecourse Development > Centre for Thinking and Learning Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > School of Human Sciences (HUM)
Last Modified:	15 Aug 2024 08:23
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/47667

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