Senior Thesis: Computer-Aided Psychological Experimentation: Self-paced Reading.
Objective: To compile an excessive amount of psychological data in regards to cognitive experimentation. To build an application that subjects willing participants to garden-path sentence self-paced reading tests as the focus of experimentation.
Hypothesis: By varying the syntactic structures subjected to the participant, the level of interference while reading will differ based upon the particular syntactic strucutre.
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Psychology Experiments Earlham CS Senior Seminar Page Sentence Comprehension My Gantt Chart Example of self-paced reading using a computer:
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While ------- --- ------- --- --------- --- -------. [space-bar press]
----- Wallace --- ------- --- --------- --- -------. [space-bar press]
----- ------- was ------- --- --------- --- -------. [space-bar press]
----- ------- --- reading --- --------- --- -------. [space-bar press]
----- ------- --- ------- the --------- --- -------. [space-bar press]
----- ------- --- ------- --- newspaper --- -------. [space-bar press]
----- ------- --- ------- --- --------- was -------. [space-bar press]
----- ------- --- ------- --- --------- --- burning. [space-bar press]
Once the task is completed, the means can be generated for reading time and how long each word took to read. This can be used to
better explain how, cognitively, we view varying syntactic structures while reading and comprehend them.
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