Liking, Semantic Inference and Effort through Cross-sentence Elaboration

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  • JIN Yimeng
    Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences, Kyushu University
  • MA Chunyu
    Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences, Kyushu University
  • LIU Danyang
    Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences, Kyushu University
  • LAUWEREYNS Johan
    Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences, Kyushu University

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  • センテンス読解による好み、推論と努力の関連性調査

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Responding to the lack of cognitive perspectives on semantic inference, this research aims to investigate liking and effort throughout cross-sentence semantic processing. We suppose that if people put more effort into elaborating, they’ll find more semantic inference within that sentence pair, and will also tend to like it more.<br>We designed a novel paradigm with cross-sentence elaboration task followed by evaluations on semantic inference and liking. For each trial, subjects should elaborate the sentence pair and choose whether to explain their elaboration by speaking out. This voluntary two-option choice varied the trials with voluntary effort and trials without voluntary effort. Results highly proved the hypothesis that semantic inference is positively correlated with liking. Both semantic inference and liking scores are significantly higher for trials with voluntary effort than trials without it. This finding suggested that interlinkages exist among effort, semantic inference and liking during semantic processing.

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