Anticipation Activities and Semantic Decisions in a Sentence Word Comparison Task

TLDR: In this article, a model of semantic decision derived from the signal detection theory can be turned, where the anticipation activities and semantic decisions in a sentence word comparison task are discussed and integrated in a grammatical case theory and in particular be related to semantic sentence structure theories.

Abstract: Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the anticipation activities and semantic decisions in a sentence word comparison task. With the main results obtained, a model of semantic decision derived from the signal detection theory can be turned. When a semantic comparison occurs between two terms some authors pointed out a cognitive activity founded on trace strength of the stimulus memorized. One issue of the comparison could be interpreted as a familiarity value between the two terms; thus, the familiarity increases with the number of presentations of the stimulus. Another explanation in such comparison tasks is founded on a semantic feature model and then the subjects are supposed to check an overlap between the two terms calculated from the number of features in common. Semantic anticipation activities could be integrated in a grammatical case theory and, in particular, be related to semantic sentence structure theories. When reading, anticipations are made as semantic hypotheses on the next words to come. Such anticipations could be established partly on semantic cases which are seen by the subject but which compose the typical frame of a sentence. Then the semantic material anticipated is compared to what is printed or said and this kind of activity have a great influence on what is memorized when reading.