TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Kretzschmar, Franziska
A1  - Schlesewsky, Matthias
A1  - Staub, Adrian
T1  - Dissociating word frequency and predictability effects in reading: Evidence from coregistration of eye movements and EEG
JF  - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
N2  - Two very reliable influences on eye fixation durations in reading are word frequency, as measured by corpus counts, and word predictability, as measured by cloze norming. Several studies have reported strictly additive effects of these 2 variables. Predictability also reliably influences the amplitude of the N400 component in event-related potential studies. However, previous research suggests that while frequency affects the N400 in single-word tasks, it may have little or no effect on the N400 when a word is presented with a preceding sentence context. The present study assessed this apparent dissociation between the results from the 2 methods using a coregistration paradigm in which the frequency and predictability of a target word were manipulated while readers’ eye movements and electroencephalograms were simultaneously recorded. We replicated the pattern of significant, and additive, effects of the 2 manipulations on eye fixation durations. We also replicated the predictability effect on the N400, time-locked to the onset of the reader’s first fixation on the target word. However, there was no indication of a frequency effect in the electroencephalogram record. We suggest that this pattern has implications both for the interpretation of the N400 and for the interpretation of frequency and predictability effects in language comprehension.
KW  - Psycholinguistik
KW  - Experimentelle Psychologie
KW  - Blickbewegung
KW  - Worthäufigkeit
KW  - Elektrophysiologie
KW  - eye movements
KW  - fixation-related potentials
KW  - N400
KW  - word frequency
KW  - word predictability
Y1  - 2015
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-102526
SN  - 0278-7393
SS  - 0278-7393
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000128
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000128
VL  - 41
IS  - 6
SP  - 1648
EP  - 1662
PB  - American Psychological Association
CY  - Washington
ER  -