Table 1 Schematic overview of the three tasks in the study design.
From: ZuCo, a simultaneous EEG and eye-tracking resource for natural sentence reading
Task 1 Normal reading (Sentiment) | Task 2 Normal reading (Wikipedia) | Task 3 Task-specific reading (Wikipedia) | |
|---|---|---|---|
Material | Positive, negative or neutral sentences from movie reviews | Wikipedia sentences containing specific relations | Wikipedia sentences containing specific relations |
Example | “The film often achieves a mesmerizing poetry.” (positive) | “Talia Shire (born April 25, 1946) is an American actress of Italian descent.” (relations: nationality, job title) | “Lincoln was the first Republican president.” (relation: political affiliation) |
Task | Read the sentences, rating the quality of the movie based on the sentence read | Read the sentences, answer control questions | Mark whether a specific relation occurs in the given sentence or not |
Control question | “Based on the previous sentence, how would you rate this movie from 1 (very bad) to 5 (very good)?” | “Talia Shire was a …1) singer 2) actress 3) director” | “Does this sentence contain the political affiliation relation? 1) Yes 2) No” |
