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The Processing Characteristics of Contrastive Information Embedded in Different Story Structures and in Different Abstraction Levels

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
1992, v.4, pp.76-92
Kyoung-Hee Cho (Dept.of Industrial Psychology, Sung Kyun Kwan University)
Jung-Mo Lee (Dept.of Industrial Psychology, Sung Kyun Kwan University)
Cho, K., & Lee, J. (1992). The Processing Characteristics of Contrastive Information Embedded in Different Story Structures and in Different Abstraction Levels. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 4, 76-92.

Abstract

Three experiments were conducted to investigate how readers process contrastive information in story texts when the types of story structures and the abstraction levels of the contrastive information within the representational hierarchy were varied. The reading time and the primed recognition latency for the contrastive and noncontrastive sentences showed following results. Longer reading time was needed for contrastive sentences than for noncontrastive sentences. Primed recognition time, however, was faster for the noncontrastive sentences. Contrastive sentences were processed slower when the mismatching was at the higher abstraction (macropropositional) level than at the lower (micropropositional) level, but it were retreived faster. The results were interpreted as supporting the hypothesis that contrastive information is encoded as a higher level proposition, is retrieved faster because of its greater discriminability and gives greater and higher level coherence to the representation of the text.

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