Peer Review #1 of "The effect of decay and lexical uncertainty on processing long-distance dependencies in reading (v0.2)"
2020
that readers preactivate long-distance lexical content and that adding neutral sentence information does not induce detectable decay of this activation.The findings are consistent with accounts suggesting that delaying dependency resolution may only affect processing if the intervening information is not neutral, i.e., it either confirms expectations or adds to working memory load, and that temporal activation decay alone may not be a major predictor of processing time.