Andriana Christofalos

University at Albany, State University of New York | UAlbany

Reading fluency deficits in schizophrenia (Sz) have been attributed to dysfunction in both lower-level, oculomotor processing and higher-level, lexical processing, according to the 2-hit deficit model (Dias et al., 2021). Given that prior work examining reading deficits in readers with Sz has primarily focused on single-line and single-word reading...

Removing interword spacing has been shown to disrupt lower-level oculomotor processes and word identification during text reading. However, the impact of these disruptions on higher-level processes remains unclear. To examine the influence of spacing on inferential processing, we monitored eye movements while participants read spaced and unspaced p...

Although a large body of work has explored the mechanisms underlying metaphor comprehension, less research has focused on spontaneous metaphor production. Previous research suggests that reasoning about analogies can induce a relational mindset, which causes a greater focus on underlying abstract similarities. We explored how inducing a relational...

Emojis can assume different relations with the sentence context in which they occur. While affective elaboration and emoji-word redundancy are frequently investigated in laboratory experiments , the role of emojis in inferential processes has received much less attention. Here, we used an online ratings task and a recognition memory task to investi...

The goal of the present study was to examine how cognitive resource depletion impacts reading comprehension. Participants completed either a simple typing task (control condition), or an attentionally taxing typing task (depletion condition) followed by a reading comprehension task. For both vague (difficult to understand) and concrete (easy to und...

Background Research shows that providing readers with a title prior to reading a passage increases comprehension compared with reading a passage without a title. However, the specific type of comprehension that is facilitated by the presence of a title and how this relates to reading time has not been examined. We present three experiments in which...