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The Situation Model in Text Reading: Evidence from an Eye Movement Study

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Brain Informatics and Health (BIH 2016)

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Understanding and processing of information in text reading have been the core content of the reading psychological research, and it is a hot topic of great concern in cognitive science community. In this study, we used eye tracking to investigate the cognitive mechanisms during peoples reading of narratives and statistical information, and we explored the differences in behavior of people during their reading of different text information from the human cognitive behavior. This study confirmed previous view that the natural process of text reading is a dual processing process of coherent reading and focus reading, and different material characteristics might trigger different information processing activities. We found that the construction of situation model contributed to text reading, which provided some evidences for the situation model from fixation point distribution.

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This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2014CB744600), the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (4164080), the Beijing Outstanding Talent Training Foundation (2014000020124G039), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61420106005), the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (26350994), the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Project (D12100005012003), the Beijing Municipal Administration of Hospitals Clinical Medicine Development of Special Funding (ZY201403).

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  1. Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100024, China

    Xiaofeng Lu, Mi Li, Shengfu Lu, Jiying Xu & Jia Xue

  2. International WIC Institute, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100024, China

    Xiaofeng Lu, Mi Li, Shengfu Lu, Jiying Xu & Jia Xue

  3. Beijing International Collaboration Base on Brain Informatics and Wisdom Services, Beijing, China

    Xiaofeng Lu, Mi Li, Shengfu Lu, Jiying Xu & Jia Xue

  4. Beijing Key Laboratory of MRI and Brain Informatics, Beijing, China

    Xiaofeng Lu, Mi Li, Shengfu Lu, Jiying Xu & Jia Xue

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  1. George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

    Giorgio A. Ascoli

  2. Department of Modeling, Analysis and Theory, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, Washington, USA

    Michael Hawrylycz

  3. University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    Hesham Ali

  4. Information Science and Technology, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    Deepak Khazanchi

  5. College of Information Sciences and Technology, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    Yong Shi

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Lu, X., Li, M., Lu, S., Xu, J., Xue, J. (2016). The Situation Model in Text Reading: Evidence from an Eye Movement Study. In: Ascoli, G., Hawrylycz, M., Ali, H., Khazanchi, D., Shi, Y. (eds) Brain Informatics and Health. BIH 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9919. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47103-7_11

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