{"pk":26853,"title":"Word Embedding Distance Does not Predict Word Reading Time","subtitle":null,"abstract":"It has been claimed that larger semantic distance between thewords of a sentence, as quantified by a distributional seman-tics model, increases both N400 size and word-reading time.The current study shows that the reading-time effect disap-pears when word surprisal is factored out, suggesting that theearlier findings were caused by a confound between semanticdistance and surprisal. This absence of a behavioural effectof semantic distance (in the presence of a strong neurophysi-ological effect) may be due to methodological differences be-tween eye-tracking and EEG experiments, but it can also beinterpreted as evidence that eye movements are optimized forreading efficiency.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"reading; eye tracking; N400; distributional seman-tics; semantic distance; word surprisal"}],"section":"Talks: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/26n4d54c","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Stefan","middle_name":"L.","last_name":"Frank","name_suffix":"","institution":"Radboud University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26853/galley/16489/download/"}]}