The Interplay between Topic Shift and Focus in the Dynamic Construction of Discourse Representations
文献类型:期刊论文
作者 | Yang, Xiaohong1,2,3; Zhang, Xiuping1,2; Wang, Cheng4; Chang, Ruohan1,2; Li, Weijun5 |
刊名 | FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY |
出版日期 | 2017-12-08 |
卷号 | 8页码:1-9 |
ISSN号 | 1664-1078 |
关键词 | Focus Topic Shift Facilitation Suppression Discourse Comprehension Memory |
DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02184 |
产权排序 | 1 |
文献子类 | Article |
英文摘要 | Previous studies have suggested that focusing an element can enhance the activation of the focused element and bring about a number of processing benefits. However, whether and how this local prominence of information interacts with global discourse organization remains unclear. In the present study, we addressed this issue in two experiments. Readers were presented with four-sentence discourses. The first sentence of each discourse contained a critical word that was either focused or unfocused in relation to a wh-question preceding the discourse. The second sentence either maintained or shifted the topic of the first sentence. Participants were told to read for comprehension and for a probe recognition task in which the memory of the critical words was tested. In Experiment 1, when the probe words were tested immediately after the point of topic shift, we found shorter response times for the focused critical words than the unfocused ones regardless of topic manipulation. However, in Experiment 2, when the probe words were tested two sentences away from the point of topic shift, we found the facilitation effect of focus only in the topic-maintained discourses, but not in the topic-shifted discourses. This suggests that the facilitation effect of focus was not immediately suppressed at the point of topic shifting, but when additional information was added to the new topic. Our findings provide evidence for the dynamic interplay between global topic structure and local salience of information and have important implications on how activation of information fluctuates in mental representation. |
WOS关键词 | Linguistic Focus ; Narrative Comprehension ; Text Comprehension ; Chinese Discourse ; Pragmatic Factors ; Eye-movements ; Memory ; Model ; Accessibility ; Information |
WOS研究方向 | Psychology |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000417481700001 |
资助机构 | National Natural Science Foundation of China(31400968 ; 31000505 ; 61433018) |
源URL | [http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/26014] |
专题 | 心理研究所_中国科学院行为科学重点实验室 |
作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Psychol, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Jiangsu Normal Univ, Jiangsu Collaborat Innovat Ctr Language Abil, Xuzhou, Peoples R China 4.Zhejiang Univ Technol, Dept Psychol, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Peoples R China 5.Liaoning Normal Univ, Res Ctr Brain & Cognit Neurosci, Dalian, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Yang, Xiaohong,Zhang, Xiuping,Wang, Cheng,et al. The Interplay between Topic Shift and Focus in the Dynamic Construction of Discourse Representations[J]. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY,2017,8:1-9. |
APA | Yang, Xiaohong,Zhang, Xiuping,Wang, Cheng,Chang, Ruohan,&Li, Weijun.(2017).The Interplay between Topic Shift and Focus in the Dynamic Construction of Discourse Representations.FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY,8,1-9. |
MLA | Yang, Xiaohong,et al."The Interplay between Topic Shift and Focus in the Dynamic Construction of Discourse Representations".FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY 8(2017):1-9. |
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