Mental models of text are representations of what the text is about (ie, situations), rather than
representations of the text itself. Many mental model theories propose that mental models …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews that spatial descriptions spontaneously construct
spatial mental models of the described scenes as a natural consequence of reading for …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the importance of mental models in the context
of spatiality. It discusses the inference processes during the construction of spatial mental …

To detail the structure and format of memory for texts, researchers have examined whether
readers monitor separate text dimensions for space, time, and characters. The authors …

The authors investigated the metrics of spatial distance represented in situation models of
narratives. In 3 experiments, a spatial gradient of accessibility in situation models was …

In the past several years, there has been an acceleration in the publication of cognitive
research on the interplay between linguistic and pictorial/spatial information. To report on …

This study explores the commonalities between linguistic and visual representations of
space. In particular, because common types of spatial relations, specifically closed-class …

We examined whether the functionality of spatial relations affects the construction and
memory of information in situation models. A functional relationship involves the interaction …

Spatial language is widely used, both literally to describe space and figuratively to express a
broad range of ideas. This article reviews two projects studying the nature of mental …

Two experiments investigated the mental representation of spatial descriptions. In
Experiment 1, the subjects classified a series of diagrams, each presented after a spatial …