Adrian Brasoveanu: Task Demands Supersede Minimal Effort Heuristics in Incremental Comprehension

The timing of representational commitment during incremental comprehension may differ across different tasks. Comparing the Maze task (Forster et al., 2009) to self-paced reading, we present data from four reading experiments demonstrating task-dependence in the processing profiles of (i) polysemous nouns and (ii) verbs with distributivity ambiguities. Results suggest that readers in the Maze task are motivated to commit to the analysis of ambiguous input in advance of readers in self-paced reading. We attribute this increased motivation to the utility of a specified semantic context in the Maze, and discuss how these findings might indicate a generalized role for risk management in the timing of representational commitments.

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