|
Research article summary:
Do readers make inferences about conversational topics?
Abstract Extract:
When we read that two protagonists in a story chatted together for a couple of minutes, do we draw inferences about the topic of the conversation on the basis of information presented earlier in the text? Participants read passages in which protagonists ... (Full abstract text below) Published 2002Sep
in Journal: Mem Cognit
(Language : eng)
Full Pubmed Extract
This information was retrieved, real-time, on your behalf from the public area of the Pubmed website:
1. Mem Cognit.
2002 Sep;30(6):945-57
Do readers make inferences about conversational topics?
Lea RB, Kayser PA, Mulligan EJ, Myers JL
Department of Psychology, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota 55105, USA. lea@macalester.edu
When we read that two protagonists in a story chatted together for a couple of minutes, do we draw inferences about the topic of the conversation on the basis of information presented earlier in the text? Participants read passages in which protagonists part and later reunite; the passages ended with a sentence either that implied conversation or did not. In Experiment 1, participants' continuation sentences indicated that inferences about the topic of conversation were drawn. Recognition probe data in Experiment 2 provided more immediate evidence of such inferences. Experiment 3 addressed a possible confound in Experiment 2 and again provided evidence that readers inferred the continuation of the conversation. In Experiments 4 and 5, we investigated the effect of having the targeted conversational topic be a secret that should not be shared between the protagonists. The results are discussed in terms of the collaboration between passive, memory-based text processing and schema-driven comprehension processes.
PMID : 12450097 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]
This information is obtained from the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Abstract text and other information may be subject to copyright. Type "NLM copyright" into Google for more information.
Full Author Information
| First Name | LastName | Initials |
| R Brooke | Lea | RB |
| Patrick A | Kayser | PA |
| Elizabeth J | Mulligan | EJ |
| Jerome L | Myers | JL |
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota 55105, USA. lea@macalester.edu
3rd Party provider links
Click the links below to go to related 3rd party information:
MESH categories and related page links
This article was linked to the MESH categories shown on the left below. The links on the right are related Memletics pages.
Category links from this article: | | Related Memletics topics: |
Links for this articleFor links to places where you can get the full text of this article see links. Note there may be a subscription or fee required for access to the full text. New! Using similar technology to this site, we have launched find-health-articles.com, targeting over 1 million health research article abstracts. Related ArticlesHere are some articles related to this one (by title keywords): Keywords in this article:addressed, based, basis, chatted, collaboration, comprehension, confound, continuation, conversation, conversational, couple, data, discussed, draw, drawn, driven, earlier, effect, ended, evidence, experiment, experiments, immediate, implied, indicated, inferences, inferred, information, investigated, later, memory, minutes, more, not, participants, passages, passive, possible, presented, probe, processing, protagonists, provided, read, readers, recognition, results, reunite, schema, secret, sentence, sentences, shared, story, targeted, terms, text, together, topic, two
|
