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Analysis of reading times data based on residual reading times or rather log-transformed reading times
After reading the article by Enochson and Culbertson (2015), I found out that reaction times elicited via self-paced reading tasks should be analyzed based on the residual reading times if the ...
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Is cumulative self-paced reading a reliable measure in online experiments?
I am a Master's student in psycholinguistics and I am currently writing my thesis to explore the effects of the social context on language comprehension during reading. While I am aware that the ...
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Why do we need to break down long sentences to understand them?
Why do we need to break down long sentences that won't immediately scan? Is it an attention thing? Working memory, executive function?
For example:
Studies show that if there are many stimuli ...
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How is it called when we explicitly quantify a letter or digit instead of spelling it out multiple times?
When we need to repeat a letter or digit several times (for example when spelling out a number or an acronym) it is easier to explicitly quantify it instead of spelling it out repeatedly: for example ...
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What skills or mental proceses improve understanding of longer written sentences? [closed]
This question concerns only written sentences, and presumes that longer sentences are more difficult to understand, a presumption which consists with the formula behind the Flesch–Kincaid readability ...
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Judgments of similarity between samples of writing
I was thinking last night about the possibility of an experiment that investigates the factors contributing to peoples' judgments of 'stylistic similarity' between two samples of writing.
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How long does it take to read a sentence with X number of characters?
How does the time needed to read a sentence scale with the number of characters? Or does this time scaling depend on something more than just character count?
For example, let $X$ be the number of ...
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How to get rid of subvocalization?
When I read a text written in latin alphabet and I want to understand what it means I usually
transform each word into spoken word (internal speech) and
then I transform it into meaning.
I can't get ...
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