TY - JOUR
T1 - I “hear” what you’re “saying”
T2 - Auditory perceptual simulation, reading speed, and reading comprehension
AU - Zhou, Peiyun
AU - Christianson, Kiel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The Experimental Psychology Society.
PY - 2016/5/3
Y1 - 2016/5/3
N2 - Auditory perceptual simulation (APS) during silent reading refers to situations in which the reader actively simulates the voice of a character or other person depicted in a text. In three eye-tracking experiments, APS effects were investigated as people read utterances attributed to a native English speaker, a non-native English speaker, or no speaker at all. APS effects were measured via online eye movements and offline comprehension probes. Results demonstrated that inducing APS during silent reading resulted in observable differences in reading speed when readers simulated the speech of faster compared to slower speakers and compared to silent reading without APS. Social attitude survey results indicated that readers’ attitudes towards the native and non-native speech did not consistently influence APS-related effects. APS of both native speech and non-native speech increased reading speed, facilitated deeper, less good-enough sentence processing, and improved comprehension compared to normal silent reading.
AB - Auditory perceptual simulation (APS) during silent reading refers to situations in which the reader actively simulates the voice of a character or other person depicted in a text. In three eye-tracking experiments, APS effects were investigated as people read utterances attributed to a native English speaker, a non-native English speaker, or no speaker at all. APS effects were measured via online eye movements and offline comprehension probes. Results demonstrated that inducing APS during silent reading resulted in observable differences in reading speed when readers simulated the speech of faster compared to slower speakers and compared to silent reading without APS. Social attitude survey results indicated that readers’ attitudes towards the native and non-native speech did not consistently influence APS-related effects. APS of both native speech and non-native speech increased reading speed, facilitated deeper, less good-enough sentence processing, and improved comprehension compared to normal silent reading.
KW - Auditory perceptual simulation
KW - Embodied cognition
KW - Eye movements
KW - Good-enough processing
KW - Language comprehension
KW - Reading
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U2 - 10.1080/17470218.2015.1018282
DO - 10.1080/17470218.2015.1018282
M3 - Article
C2 - 25679796
AN - SCOPUS:84961212172
SN - 1747-0218
VL - 69
SP - 972
EP - 995
JO - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
JF - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
IS - 5
ER -