Eye Movements Of The Inhibition Of Individuals With Different Cognitive Styles In The Comprehension Of Language Which Distraction

In the process of the cognition, the inhibition is defined as the mechanism of preventing the irrelevant information from entering the working memory or eliminating the irrelevant information from the working memory. The function of the inhibition is to checking the activation, eliminating and limiting. With the development of related studies in inhibition, more attention had been paid to the special groups. At present, researches on individual differences in inhibition mainly lied in different groups with different ages, different comprehension capacities and different working memory capacities, and they show different inhibition efficiencies. Many studies showed that cognitive style (field- dependence/ independence) was associated with the cognitive reconstitution, the working memory capacity and the spatial selective attention. Hence, the purpose here was to study the inhibition differences between FD and FI individuals in the comprehension of the language with internal irrelevant information.In this study, 4 experiments were performed,two of them was reading behavioral research, others were subvocal reading eyetracking research. Experiment 1 studied differences between FD and FI individuals by using different position of context and different type of sentence , which adopted 2 (cognitive style: FD, FI)×2 (position of context: pre-context , post-context )×2 (type of sentence: ambiguous sentence, unambiguous sentence) mixed factorial design. Cognitive style was between-subject variables and position of sentence and type of sentence were within-subject variable; Experiment 2 was similar to Experiment 1 , the only difference was in Experiment 2 eye-tracking measures was adopted as a further disscusion to the results of Experiment 1. Experiment 3 studied differences between FD and FI individuals by the role of global and local Contexts in ambiguous pronoun Comprehension, which adopted 2 (cognitive style: FD, FI)×2 (global contexts: consistent,inconsistent ).×2 (local contexts:consistent ,inconsistent )mixed factorial design. Cognitive style is between-subjects variable and the global contexts and local contexts are within-subject variable. Experiment 4 was similar to Experiment 3 , the only difference was in Experiment 4 eye-tracking measures was adopted as a further disscusion to the results of Experiment 3.The results indicated: (1) Inhibitory efficiency was affected by the position of context. The inhibitory effect of pre-context was superi-or to post-contex。(2) Individuals with different cognitive styles were significantly different in inhibiting the ambiguous sentences.During the process of dealing with the ambiguous sentences, individuals with different cognitive styles were influenced by the position of context. At the beginning of the sentence processing, the positon of the context affects the dependence, while coming to the latter part of the sentence processing, the position of the context affects the independence. (3)The integral context and the partial context have an influence on the understanding of pronouns, and they affect each other. First-run dwell time for the interest areas suggested that the global and local contexts produced effects. The results of the second-run dwell time for the interest areas suggested that both theglobal and local contexts produced marginal major effects. (4)Individuals with different cognitive styles inhibit the difference of ambiguous pronouns arisen by the integral context and the partial context in the understanding of language. The difference is mainly caused by the integral context, and take places the late phase of the language processing.