Getting a cue before getting a clue: Event-related potentials to inference in visual narrative comprehension

Neuropsychologia
Neil Cohn, Marta Kutas

Abstract

Inference has long been emphasized in the comprehension of verbal and visual narratives. Here, we measured event-related brain potentials to visual sequences designed to elicit inferential processing. In Impoverished sequences, an expressionless "onlooker" watches an undepicted event (e.g., person throws a ball for a dog, then watches the dog chase it) just prior to a surprising finale (e.g., someone else returns the ball), which should lead to an inference (i.e., the different person retrieved the ball). Implied sequences alter this narrative structure by adding visual cues to the critical panel such as a surprised facial expression to the onlooker implying they saw an unexpected, albeit undepicted, event. In contrast, Expected sequences show a predictable, but then confounded, event (i.e., dog retrieves ball, then different person returns it), and Explicit sequences depict the unexpected event (i.e., different person retrieves then returns ball). At the critical penultimate panel, sequences representing depicted events (Explicit, Expected) elicited a larger posterior positivity (P600) than the relatively passive events of an onlooker (Impoverished, Implied), though Implied sequences were slightly more positive than Impoverish...Continue Reading

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Dec 23, 2019·Topics in Cognitive Science·Neil Cohn, Joseph P Magliano
Sep 6, 2019·Topics in Cognitive Science·Lester C LoschkyJoseph P Magliano
Dec 11, 2019·Psychonomic Bulletin & Review·Neil Cohn
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