This paper investigates the nature of verbal working memory (WM) in sentence comprehension and provides evidence for overlapping pools of verbal WM resources between on-line sentence comprehension and other verbally-mediated tasks. We report the results of two dual-task experiments. In Experiment 1, participants simultaneously performed a selfpaced reading task and a self-paced arithmetic addit...

Previous studies used a text-fading procedure as a training tool with the goal to increase silent reading fluency (i.e., proficient reading rate and comprehension). In recently published studies, this procedure resulted in lasting reading enhancements for adult and adolescent research samples. However, studies working with children reported mixed results. While reading rate improvements were ob...

It is easier to produce and comprehend a series of sentences when they have similar syntactic structures. This "syntactic priming" effect was investigated during silent sentence reading using (i) blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) response as a physiological measure in an f MRI study and (ii) reading time as a behavioral measure in a complementary self paced reading paradigm. We found tha...

This study explored the effect of contrastive phrase resynthesis instruction ongaining the teachability hypothesis stages in self-paced versus time-constrained oralproduction and recognition. Three groups (i.e., 23 learners) of high beginner femalelearners in an English language institute were randomly selected from a cohort oflearners. One group received contrastive metalinguistic instruction ...

Previous research on smart phone use while driving has primarily focused on phone calls and texting. Drivers are now increasingly using their phone for other activities during driving, in particular social media, which have different cognitive demands. The present study compared the effects of four different smart phone tasks on car-following performance in a driving simulator. Phone tasks were...

In two experiments, we investigated comprehension monitoring in 10-12 years old children differing in reading comprehension skill. The children's self-paced reading times (Experiment 1) and eye fixations and regressions (Experiment 2) were measured as they read narrative texts in which an action of the protagonist was consistent or inconsistent with a description of the protagonist's character ...

This paper addresses the question whether possible alternative constructions and alternative choices of referring expressions influence the resolution of anaphoric expressions. We present a questionnaire, a self-paced reading study and a corpus analysis, suggesting that alternative constructions and referring expressions help to constitute preferences for anaphora in referentially ambiguous sen...

Abstract. The purpose of this study is to examine whether online text vowelization of words in context facilitates reading in Hebrew, which is a deep orthography language. The study compares the effect of vowelization on reading among native and non-native Hebrew speakers. Participants will perform a self-paced reading cumulative presentation (Marinis, 2003) task, that includes a 2 (voweled/non...

In this paper, I argue that the retrieval of filler-phrases in syntactic filler-gap dependencies is facilitated by encoding more information in the filler-phrase. Three self-paced reading experiments provide the evidence for this memory facilitation hypothesis: reading times decrease when more explicit whphrases and indefinites occur as fillers in three different syntactic constructions. Crucia...