Topic-medial sentences have higher strength than topic-initial and topic-final sentences¶
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q3 i? Post hoc comparisons show topic-medial sentences have higher strength than topic-initial (p < 0.001) and topic-final (p < 0.001) sentences. → Catrysse 2025
Evidence¶
Catrysse 2025¶
Catrysse, L., van Daal, T., Jarodzka, H., Kaakinen, J. K., Donche, V., & Gijbels, D. (2025). How Eye Read: A Social Network Approach. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-025-10000-y
q3 · i? · associational · r2
Post hoc Tukey comparisons (Bonferroni corrected) following the Poisson mixed model on strength, from 31 readers of three expository texts; descriptive means were 9.375 (medial) versus 6.973 (initial) and 6.634 (final).
"Post hoc tests (Table 6) indicate that topic-medial sentences have a higher strength compared to topic-initial (p < 0.001) and topic-final sentences (p < 0.001)."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Topic-final sentences show higher harmonic centrality than topic-medial sentences and lower local clustering coefficient than other sentence types — related
- Strength is strongly positively correlated with second-pass reading time, while betweenness, harmonic centrality and local clustering coefficient are not related to duration measures — related
- Readers with higher working memory capacity make more transitions between sentences (higher strength) — related
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Topic-medial sentences have higher strength than topic-initial and topic-final sentences |
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Topic-medial sentences have higher strength than topic-initial and topic-final sentences |
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2025 |
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by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-20 |
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