While substantial effort has been invested in making robots more reliable, experience
demonstrates that robots operating in unstructured environments are often challenged by …

This article reviews research on the use of situation models in language comprehension and
memory retrieval over the past 15 years. Situation models are integrated mental …

This chapter describes a general theory of comprehension. The theory of text
comprehension is a comprehension model in the sense, but it leaves room for problem …

Literacy Beyond Text Comprehension aims to systematically investigate how readers
interpret reading tasks within a situation, and how that interpretation influences reading …

In this book, Walter Kintsch presents a theory of human text comprehension and extends his
analysis to related areas. Comprehension is conceptualized as a two-stage process: first …

What does it mean to be transported by a narrative? to create a world inside one's head?
How do experiences of narrative worlds alter our experience of the real world? In this book …

This critical volume, provides an in-depth analysis of second language reading's multiple
dimensions. The paperback edition describes the complexity of reading and explains how …

The authors summarize developments in the concept of working memory as a
multicomponent system, beginning by contrasting this approach with alternative uses of the …

Most current theories of text processing assume a constructionist view of inference
processing. In this article, an alternative view is proposed, labeled the minimalist hypothesis …

Good reasoning can lead to success; bad reasoning can lead to catastrophe. Yet, it's not
obvious how we reason, and why we make mistakes-so much of our mental life goes on …