{"pk":25955,"title":"Asymmetry of causal inference in reading","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This study investigated how knowledge of causality representations affects the reading in Japanese. In Experiment\n1, 24 participants read events presented in cause-to-effect or effect-to-cause order without causal conjunctions. The latter\nreceived longer reading times and more regressions than the former even when probability and predictability were balanced.\nExperiment 2 examined whether this reading order effect was derived from a default reasoning asymmetry (i.e., reasoning from\ncause to effect is favored over that from effect to cause). We utilized epistemic constructions to explicitly identify the reasoning\ndirection. Self-paced reading results from 24 participants showed that readers were more efficient when reading cause-event as\nthe evidence, effect-event as the conclusion vis-a-vis the counterpart, confirming the reasoning asymmetry. However, reading\norder effect remained robust, presumably reflecting that causal reasoning is temporally embodied.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7f91z35z","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Yingyi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Luo","name_suffix":"","institution":"Waseda University","department":""},{"first_name":"Manami","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sato","name_suffix":"","institution":"Okinawa International University","department":""},{"first_name":"Yunzhu","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wang","name_suffix":"","institution":"Hiroshima University","department":""},{"first_name":"Satoshi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ito","name_suffix":"","institution":"Hiroshima University","department":""},{"first_name":"Hiromu","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sakai","name_suffix":"","institution":"Waseda University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25955/galley/15579/download/"}]}