Reading Argumentative Texts: Effects of the Presence-Absence of Connectives in Reading Comprehension and Cognitive Effort
Recent studies prove a strong association between reading and eye movements. Few investigations report the role of connectors and prior knowledge during reading in Spanish, as well as their association with eye movements. The present study aims to evaluate the effects of the presenceabsence of conn...
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Colegio Profesional de Psicólogos de Costa Rica
2022-12-01
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| author | Hector Limón-Fernández Luis Miguel Sánchez-Loyo Luis Alfredo Mayoral-Gutiérrez |
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Recent studies prove a strong association between reading and eye movements. Few investigations report the role of connectors and prior knowledge during reading in Spanish, as well as their association with eye movements. The present study aims to evaluate the effects of the presenceabsence of connectors in two argumentative texts on cognitive effort and reading comprehension.
Forty-one psychology undergraduate students participated in a reading comprehension task, while their eye movements were recorded. The condition with connectors was related to prior knowledge, the slide time fixation, the slide number fixations, and the slide return fixations. The condition without connectors was related to the return fixations, the time fixation, and the number of fixations. Prior knowledge was correlated with the total time fixation, the total return fixations, and comprehension. This suggests that during reading without connectors more cognitive effort is required, observed in the return fixations; moreover, prior knowledge has an important role in the visual strategies required to process and obtain a representation of text. But participant performance was still good as observed in the scores of the reading comprehension task.
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| spelling | doaj-art-843e4546f2984d7f8df810aecb1ac0022025-02-11T09:53:40ZengColegio Profesional de Psicólogos de Costa RicaRevista Costarricense de Psicología0257-14391659-29132022-12-0141210.22544/rcps.v41i02.01Reading Argumentative Texts: Effects of the Presence-Absence of Connectives in Reading Comprehension and Cognitive EffortHector Limón-Fernández0Luis Miguel Sánchez-Loyo 1Luis Alfredo Mayoral-Gutiérrez 2Universidad de GuadalajaraUniversidad de GuadalajaraUniversidad de Guadalajara Recent studies prove a strong association between reading and eye movements. Few investigations report the role of connectors and prior knowledge during reading in Spanish, as well as their association with eye movements. The present study aims to evaluate the effects of the presenceabsence of connectors in two argumentative texts on cognitive effort and reading comprehension. Forty-one psychology undergraduate students participated in a reading comprehension task, while their eye movements were recorded. The condition with connectors was related to prior knowledge, the slide time fixation, the slide number fixations, and the slide return fixations. The condition without connectors was related to the return fixations, the time fixation, and the number of fixations. Prior knowledge was correlated with the total time fixation, the total return fixations, and comprehension. This suggests that during reading without connectors more cognitive effort is required, observed in the return fixations; moreover, prior knowledge has an important role in the visual strategies required to process and obtain a representation of text. But participant performance was still good as observed in the scores of the reading comprehension task. https://www.rcps-cr.org/openjournal/index.php/RCPs/article/view/231Reading ComprehensionConnectorsEye MovementsEye-Tracking |
| spellingShingle | Hector Limón-Fernández Luis Miguel Sánchez-Loyo Luis Alfredo Mayoral-Gutiérrez Reading Argumentative Texts: Effects of the Presence-Absence of Connectives in Reading Comprehension and Cognitive Effort Revista Costarricense de Psicología Reading Comprehension Connectors Eye Movements Eye-Tracking |
| title | Reading Argumentative Texts: Effects of the Presence-Absence of Connectives in Reading Comprehension and Cognitive Effort |
| title_full | Reading Argumentative Texts: Effects of the Presence-Absence of Connectives in Reading Comprehension and Cognitive Effort |
| title_fullStr | Reading Argumentative Texts: Effects of the Presence-Absence of Connectives in Reading Comprehension and Cognitive Effort |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reading Argumentative Texts: Effects of the Presence-Absence of Connectives in Reading Comprehension and Cognitive Effort |
| title_short | Reading Argumentative Texts: Effects of the Presence-Absence of Connectives in Reading Comprehension and Cognitive Effort |
| title_sort | reading argumentative texts effects of the presence absence of connectives in reading comprehension and cognitive effort |
| topic | Reading Comprehension Connectors Eye Movements Eye-Tracking |
| url | https://www.rcps-cr.org/openjournal/index.php/RCPs/article/view/231 |
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