Differential Impact of Perceptual and Semantic Induction Tasks on Verbal Information Search within a Text by Young Adolescents

EasyChair Preprint 3867

Abstract

This experiment tested whether performing a pre-search task involving either the spelling or the meaning of words modified the way 11 years-old children subsequently scanned a text to find a single-word answer to a question. Compared to adults performing the same searches, eye movement recordings revealed that the induction tasks had a stronger influence on young adolescents. In particular, the semantic induction task may facilitate question-answering by adolescents when the text contains semantically-relevant distracting information.

Keyphrases: Question Answering, adolescents, eye movement recording, eye tracking, induction task, information search, word identification

@booklet{EasyChair:3867,
  author    = {Daniel Darles and Christine Ros and Jean-François Rouet and Nicolas Vibert},
  title     = {Differential Impact of Perceptual and Semantic Induction Tasks on Verbal Information Search within a Text by Young Adolescents},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 3867},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2020}}