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The Effect of the Inference Complexity and the Representational Similarity on Syntactic Complexity Processing

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2015, v.27 no.3, pp.321-340
https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2015.27.3.001


& (2015). The Effect of the Inference Complexity and the Representational Similarity on Syntactic Complexity Processing. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 27(3), 321-340, https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2015.27.3.001
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the inference complexity and the representational similarity on understanding of the syntactically complex sentences. More specifically, the current experiments tested whether the processes of the syntactic complexity share resources with the other general cognitive processes such as reasoning and similarity processes. The current experiments also focused on the generality of the representational similarity effect and clarifying the locus and nature of the representational similarity by testing whether the representational similarity interact with the demands of conscious reasoning processing or the demands of syntactic complexity. To do so, Korean and English monolinguals were performed the self-paced reading tasks with sentences varying syntactic complexity, representational similarity and the complexity of the inference processing. In both of the Korean and English experiments, representational similarity and the syntactic complexity showed a significant interaction while the inference complexity did not interact with other variables. The results of the Korean and English experiments suggested that processes of the representational similarity and syntactic complexity come first and share resources while they do not share resources with reasoning processing demands.

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명사구 유사성, 관계절의 복잡성, 관계추론, 작업기억, Representational similarity, syntactic complexity, inference complexity, working memory

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