TY - JOUR
AU - Rayner, Keith
AB - Providing titles for passages improves the comprehension and memorability of text. Titles have generally been thought to facilitate comprehension at later stages of processing. Consistent with prior research, we found that passages presented with titles were better recalled than those without titles. Furthermore, in Experiment 1, the presence of titles led to fewer regressive eye movements, shorter end-of-sentence reading times, and shorter fixation times on target nouns. Experiments 2 and 3, using ambiguous target words, indicated that except when a very infrequent sense of a word is required, titles provide a strong enough context to allow for ambiguous words to be processed as quickly as control words. The results of the three experiments suggest that titles affect processing at both integrative and lexical stages of reading.
TI - Effects of titles on the processing of text and lexically ambiguous words: Evidence from eye movements
JF - Memory & Cognition
DO - 10.3758/BF03209349
DA - 2011-01-16
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/effects-of-titles-on-the-processing-of-text-and-lexically-ambiguous-1B0oNuzYAN
SP - 1011
EP - 1021
VL - 28
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -