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Pelica, S. & Frade, S. (2023). Once Bitten, Twice Shy: The Impact of Predictive Validity on Anticipatory Processing During Sentence Comprehension. 17th Annual Meeting of the APPE .

S. Pelica and C. S. Frade,  "Once Bitten, Twice Shy: The Impact of Predictive Validity on Anticipatory Processing During Sentence Comprehension", in 17th Annu. Meeting of the APPE , 2023

@misc{pelica2023_1766325199548,
	author = "Pelica, S. and Frade, S.",
	title = "Once Bitten, Twice Shy: The Impact of Predictive Validity on Anticipatory Processing During Sentence Comprehension",
	year = "2023"
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Once Bitten, Twice Shy: The Impact of Predictive Validity on Anticipatory Processing During Sentence Comprehension
T2  - 17th Annual Meeting of the APPE 
AU  - Pelica, S.
AU  - Frade, S.
PY  - 2023
AB  - There is increasing evidence that readers make predictions about upcoming words during
sentence comprehension. However, little research has been conducted to understand if this
process is automatic (i.e., if readers always activate a set of associated concepts when there
is a sufficiently constraining context) or strategic (i.e., readers only anticipate the expected
candidates when it is beneficial for sentence processing). The current study examined
whether lexical predictions are modulated by word expectancy and prediction validity of a
prior set of sentences. In a one-word moving-window self-paced reading task, 100
participants initially read a set of 120 filler sentences to establish an environment with
either high or low predictive validity. Then, both groups read 60 experimental sentences
with critical words that were either expected or unexpected. The response times following
the expected critical words were faster than after reading the unexpected critical words.
This effect was significant for participants who had previously read the highly predictive
filler sentences, whereas it was not observed for the group with low predictive validity
fillers. These findings suggest that the facilitation of lexical predictions in sentence context
may depend on the recent success or failure of anticipatory processing. Readers who have
experienced many prediction failures may strategically limit their anticipatory processing.
This study adds to our understanding of the benefits and costs of lexical predictions and the
processes involved in sentence comprehension.
ER  -