Differences in scanpath pattern and verbal working memory predicts efficient reading in the Cloze gap-filling test
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2024
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Cognitive Processing
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Laurence P.G.
Bassetto S.A.
Bertolino N.P.
Barros M.S.C.V.O.
Macedo E.C.
Bassetto S.A.
Bertolino N.P.
Barros M.S.C.V.O.
Macedo E.C.
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© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Marta Olivetti Belardinelli 2024.Different tests measure text comprehension, including the cloze gap-filling test, often used for language learning. Different studies hypothesized cognitive strategies in this type of test and their relationship with working memory and performance. However, no study investigated the cloze test, working memory, and possible cognitive strategies, while performing the test. Therefore, this study aimed to identify cognitive visual strategies in the cloze test by applying an unsupervised algorithm and to analyze the relationship between these strategies with working memory and performance in the cloze test. Our sample consisted of 51 university students, the largest sample in studies of cognitive strategies with cloze tests. Participants answered an 11-item cloze test in a computer with eye-tracking, a verbal working memory test, and a visuospatial working memory test. Our analysis of participants’ scanpath identified two main strategies: one with fewer toggles between text and word bank and fewer fixations than the other one, indicating the existence of a global strategy. Furthermore, a model predicting the efficiency of participants in the cloze test found that item complexity, using a global strategy, and higher scores of working memory were the most significant predictors. These results confirm the hypothesis of a global strategy being related to successfully achieving higher-order reading processes.