To browse Academia. This paper explores coherence and cohesion as critical factors influencing text readability. It discusses how these elements interact within various text structures to enhance understanding and retention for readers, ultimately proposing assessment techniques to evaluate readability based on coherence and cohesion metrics.
Complex cognitive processes are often investigated via elicitation of natural language data. While traditional psychological research typically focuses on the analysis and interpretation of content that is directly expressed in verbal reports, linguistic discourse analytic methods can contribute deeper insights into the processes involved, via highlighting linguistic structures and patterns that the speakers themselves may not be consciously aware of.
In the second part we turn to a more detailed, exemplary presentation of a study of thought processes involved in object assembly. A process model developed on the basis of the verbal data represents the main steps of the generalized abstract problem solving procedure. Furthermore, the linguistic data reflect a Neurocognitive processes responsible for representation of meaning and understanding of words are investigated.
First a review of current knowledge about word representation, recent experiments linking it to associative memory and to right hemisphere synchronous activity is presented. Various conjectures on how meaning arises and how reasoning and problem solving is done are presented. These inspirations are used to make systematic approximation to spreading activation in semantic memory networks. Using hierarchical ontologies representations of short texts are enhanced and it is shown that highdimensional vector models may be treated as a snapshot approximation of the neural activity.
Clustering short medical texts into different categories is greatly enhanced by this process, thus facilitating understanding of the text. We investigated age-related changes in the semantic distance between successively generated words in two letter fluency tasks differing with respect to demands placed on executive control.
