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Título:
Causal inferences in expository texts: Online effects of text layout and non-figurative diagrams
Autor/es:
SAUX, G., BURIN, D., MOLINARI, C. E IRRAZABAL, N.
Lugar:
Montreal
Reunión:
Congreso; 22nd. Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse.; 2012
Institución organizadora:
Society for Text and Discourse
Resumen:
This study examined the online generation of causalinferences when reading scientific expository texts, as afunction of distance between parts of text to beconnected by the inference, and simultaneouspresentation of abstract graphs designed to highlightcausal relations in text. Low prior knowledgeparticipants were asked to read natural sciences texts.Reading times for target sentences incongruent withprior text were collected. Distance to the causalantecedent had no significant effect on reading timesfor inconsistent sentences. Inclusion of graphs had asignificant effect on inferential activity: diagramsenhanced online incongruence detection, in comparisonwith texts without graphs.