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

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 …

The purpose of the present study is twofold: the first objective is to evaluate the importance
of visual experience for the ability to form a spatial representation (spatial mental model) of …

In this study a model of question answering (called QUEST) is tested in the context of short
stories. College students first read a story and then judged the quality of answers to …

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 …

This chapter introduces the first of two categories of inferences: coherence inferences.
Coherence inferences are defined as those that the reader has to make to ensure a …

Six experiments were conducted to test whether the spatial properties of cognitive maps
constructed from verbal descriptions are similar to those of representations derived from …

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 …

Résumé Dans cette revue critique, les inférences produites au cours de la lecture de textes
sont tout d'abord classées par rapport à leur fonction dans la représentation mentale: rendre …

Descriptions with a route perspective take the addressee into the environment and give
information on the position of objects relative to the changing position of the addressee. In …