| Title | Children’s and adults’ processing of anomaly and implausibility during reading: Evidence from eye movements
| | Authors | Holly S. S. L. Joseph, Simon P. Liversedge, Hazel I. Blythe, Sarah J. White, Susan E. Gathercole, Keith Rayner
| | Journal | Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2008 May ; 61(5): 708–723.
| | Year of publishing | 2008
| | Abstract | The eye movements of 24 children and 24 adults were monitored to compare how they read
sentences containing plausible, implausible, and anomalous thematic relations. In the implausible
condition the incongruity occurred due to the incompatibility of two objects involved in the event
denoted by the main verb. In the anomalous condition the direct object of the verb was not a
possible verb argument. Adults exhibited immediate disruption with the anomalous sentences as
compared to the implausible sentences as indexed by longer gaze durations on the target word.
Children exhibited the same pattern of effects as adults as far as the anomalous sentences were
concerned, but exhibited delayed effects of implausibility. These data indicate that while children
and adults are alike in their basic thematic assignment processes during reading, children may be
delayed in the efficiency with which they are able to integrate pragmatic and real-world
knowledge into their discourse representation.
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