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 …

The generality of effects of situation models on narrative comprehension was investigated. In
three experiments, a spatial gradient of accessibility in situation models was observed. The …

We investigated the accessibility of information from situation models during narrative
comprehension. Subjects memorized a diagram of a building and then read narratives …

Three experiments were conducted to investigate the process by which location information
in narratives is represented in memory and the nature of the resulting memory …

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

This study investigated whether spatial situation models are constructed in naturalistic story
comprehension. The experiment featured a relatively complex, naturalistic text. When …

Four experiments explored readers' mental models of described scenes. Environments were
described from one of two perspectives, an internal perspective of an observer within the …

Three experiments examined how readers inferred spatial information that was relevant to a
story character's movements through a previously memorized layout of a fictional building …

Four experiments examined the availability of spatial information from a situation model. By
using two dependent measures (naming and reading time) and two different sets of …

The authors conducted 2 experiments to study the metrics of spatial distance in a mental
imagery task. In both experiments, participants first memorized the layout of a building …