Five experiments used ERPs and eye tracking to determine the interplay of word-level and discourse-level information during sentence processing. Subjects read sentences that were locally congruent but whose congruence with discourse context was manipulated. Furthermore, critical words in the local sentence were preceded by a prime word that was associated or not. Violations of discourse congruence had early and lingering effects on ERP and eye-tracking measures. This indicates that discourse representations have a rapid effect on lexical semantic processing even in locally congruous texts. In contrast, effects of association were more malleable: Very early effects of associative priming were only robust when the discourse context was absent or not cohesive. Together these results suggest that the global discourse model quickly influences lexical processing in sentences, and that spreading activation from associative priming does not contribute to natural reading in discourse contexts.

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句子处理过程中话语一致性和词汇关联的相互作用：来自 ERP 和眼动追踪的证据

五个实验使用 ERP 和眼动追踪来确定句子处理过程中单词级和话语级信息的相互作用。受试者阅读局部一致但与话语上下文一致的句子。此外，本地句子中的关键词前面有一个相关或不相关的主要词。违反话语一致性对 ERP 和眼动追踪测量有早期和持续的影响。这表明即使在局部一致的文本中，话语表征对词汇语义处理也有快速影响。相比之下，联想的效果更具延展性：联想启动的早期效果只有在话语上下文不存在或不具有凝聚力时才有效。