{"pk":26303,"title":"Investigating Semantic Conflict between General Knowledge and Novel Information\nin Real-Time Sentence Processing","subtitle":null,"abstract":"There is extensive evidence that listeners use general\nknowledge to predict upcoming sentence endings; however,\nless is known about how novel information is integrated when\nthere is disagreement between general knowledge and novel\ninformation. The present studies use the visual world\nparadigm to study the semantic competition between new\ninformation and general knowledge. Experiment 1\ndemonstrates that listeners learn to use limited exposure to\nnew information and their general knowledge to anticipate\nsentence endings that align with the action of the sentence.\nExperiment 2 demonstrates participants learn to use\ncombinatorial information from stories to elicit anticipatory\neye movements to the target over the general knowledge\ndistractor. Evidence from these experiments indicates even in\nthe presence of semantic conflict with general knowledge,\nlisteners rapidly increase the weight of novel information\nrather than general knowledge.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"visual world paradigm; sentence processing; general\nknowledge"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0vp0g3w9","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Angele","middle_name":"","last_name":"Yazbec","name_suffix":"","institution":"Florida State University","department":""},{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kaschak","name_suffix":"","institution":"Florida State University","department":""},{"first_name":"Arielle","middle_name":"","last_name":"Borovsky","name_suffix":"","institution":"Florida State University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26303/galley/15939/download/"}]}