A word maze consists of a sequence of frames, each containing two alternatives. Subjects are required to select one of those alternatives according to some criterion defined by the experimenter. This simple technique can be used to investigate a wide range of issues. For example, if one alternative is a word and the other is a nonword, the subject may be required to press a key to indicate where the word is. This provides an interesting variant of the lexical decision task, since the difficulty of the lexical discrimination can be manipulated on a trial-by-trial basis by varying the properties of the nonword alternative. On the other hand, a version of a self-paced reading task is created if each successive frame contains a word that can continue a sentence, and the subject is required to identify which word that is. Once again, by manipulating the properties of the incorrect alternative one may be able to control the mode of processing adopted by the subject. Although this is a highly artificial form of reading, it does allow one to study the sentence processing under more tightly controlled conditions.
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García, Omar, Anna B. Cieślicka & Roberto R. Heredia
2015. Nonliteral Language Processing and Methodological Considerations. In Bilingual Figurative Language Processing, ► pp. 117 ff.
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2016. Bilingual Reading: The Visual Moving Window. In Methods in Bilingual Reading Comprehension Research, ► pp. 99 ff.
HILPERT, MARTIN & DAVID CORREIA SAAVEDRA
2018. The unidirectionality of semantic changes in grammaticalization: an experimental approach to the asymmetric priming hypothesis. English Language and Linguistics 22:3 ► pp. 357 ff.
Jungjohann, Jana, Jeffrey M. DeVries, Andreas Mühling & Markus Gebhardt
2018. Using Theory-Based Test Construction to Develop a New Curriculum-Based Measurement for Sentence Reading Comprehension. Frontiers in Education 3
Li, Rui, Zhiyi Zhang & Chuanbin Ni
2017. The Impact of World Knowledge on the Processing of Mandarin Possessive Reflexive zijide. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 46:3 ► pp. 597 ff.
Libben, Gary, Jordan Gallant & Wolfgang U. Dressler
2021. Textual Effects in Compound Processing: A Window on Words in the World. Frontiers in Communication 6
Mansbridge, Michael P. & Katsuo Tamaoka
2018. The (In)Sensitivity of Plural -S by Japanese Learners of English. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics 08:05 ► pp. 176 ff.
Pissani, Laura & Roberto G. de Almeida
2022. Can you mend a broken heart? Awakening conventional metaphors in the maze. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 29:1 ► pp. 253 ff.
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2023. Early Birds Can Fly: Awakening the Literal Meaning of Conventional Metaphors Further Downstream. Metaphor and Symbol 38:4 ► pp. 346 ff.
Wang, Xin
2015. Language control in bilingual language comprehension: evidence from the maze task. Frontiers in Psychology 6
Witzel, Jeffrey & Kenneth Forster
2014. Lexical co-occurrence and ambiguity resolution. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 29:2 ► pp. 158 ff.
Witzel, Jeffrey & Naoko Witzel
2016. Incremental Sentence Processing in Japanese: A Maze Investigation into Scrambled and Control Sentences. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 45:3 ► pp. 475 ff.
Witzel, Naoko, Jeffrey Witzel & Kenneth Forster
2012. Comparisons of Online Reading Paradigms: Eye Tracking, Moving-Window, and Maze. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 41:2 ► pp. 105 ff.
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