Presenter: Ariel N. James Affiliation: Macalester College – Psychology Department Date: 2022-03-15
Key Takeaways from the Project
Background
Language experience plays an important role in theories of online sentence processing. This study examined a battery of five tasks (the fab 5) designed to measure language experience:
Author Recognition Test
Extended Range Vocabulary Test
North American Adult Reading Test
Comparative Reading Habits
Reading Time Estimate
Results
The fab 5 capture something about language experience.
The fab components are moderately related to each other.
Fab 5 measures relate to sentence comprehension and fixation latencies, accounting for other cognitive measures.
Condition effects as measures of individual differences are not necessarily reliable.