PMID- 34763578
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220728
LR  - 20220728
IS  - 1747-0226 (Electronic)
IS  - 1747-0218 (Linking)
VI  - 75
IP  - 9
DP  - 2022 Sep
TI  - Misretrieval but not misrepresentation: A feature misbinding account of 
      post-interpretive effects in number attraction.
PG  - 1727-1745
LID - 10.1177/17470218211061578 [doi]
AB  - Attraction effects in comprehension have reliably shown a grammaticality 
      asymmetry in which mismatching plural attractors confer facilitatory interference 
      for ungrammatical verbs, but no processing cost for grammatical verbs. While this 
      has favoured cue-based retrieval accounts of attraction phenomena in 
      comprehension, Patson and Husband offered offline evidence suggesting that 
      comprehenders systematically misrepresent number information in attraction 
      phrases, leaving open the possibility for faulty noun phrase (NP) representations 
      later in processing. The current study employs two self-paced reading discourse 
      experiments to test for number attraction misrepresentations in real time. 
      Specifically, the attraction phrases occurred as embedded direct object phrases, 
      allowing for a direct test of the role of attractor noun number in head noun 
      number misrepresentation (i.e., no number cue from verb). Although no online 
      evidence for misrepresentation was found, a third single-sentence rapid serial 
      visual presentation experiment showed error rates to offline probes corroborating 
      the post-interpretive findings from Patson and Husband, suggesting that a search 
      in memory for associative features may not employ the same processes as the 
      formation of dependencies in discourse comprehension. The findings are discussed 
      in the framework of feature misbinding in memory in line with recent 
      post-interpretive accounts of offline comprehension errors.
FAU - Dempsey, Jack
AU  - Dempsey J
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1267-6780
AD  - Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 
      Urbana, IL, USA.
FAU - Christianson, Kiel
AU  - Christianson K
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7282-2810
AD  - Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 
      Urbana, IL, USA.
AD  - Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology, University of Illinois at 
      Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
FAU - Tanner, Darren
AU  - Tanner D
AD  - Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology, University of Illinois at 
      Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
AD  - Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, 
      IL, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20211201
PL  - England
TA  - Q J Exp Psychol (Hove)
JT  - Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
JID - 101259775
SB  - IM
MH  - *Comprehension
MH  - Humans
MH  - Language
MH  - *Reading
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Agreement attraction
OT  - cue-based retrieval
EDAT- 2021/11/13 06:00
MHDA- 2022/07/29 06:00
CRDT- 2021/11/12 05:30
PHST- 2021/11/13 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/07/29 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/11/12 05:30 [entrez]
AID - 10.1177/17470218211061578 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2022 Sep;75(9):1727-1745. doi: 10.1177/17470218211061578. 
      Epub 2021 Dec 1.