Highlights•Event elements changes are event boundaries, thus creating new event
models.•Information beyond the current event model is less available.•Long-term memory is …

We investigated the ability of people to retrieve information about objects as they moved
through rooms in a virtual space. People were probed with object names that were either …

The authors deal with the question of how expertise fits within that part of human personality
they describe with a theory of human intelligence. Thus, the larger perspective is that of …

Reading fiction for pleasure is robustly correlated with improved cognitive attainment and
other benefits. It is also in decline among young people in developed nations, in part …

Studies of discourse have long placed focus on the inference generated by information that
is not overtly expressed, and theories of visual narrative comprehension similarly focused on …

During text comprehension, readers create mental representations of the described events,
called situation models. When new information is encountered, these models must be …

We examined whether readers monitored protagonists' emotional shifts and whether reader
engagement influenced situation model construction. Participants read narratives that …

The study of text comprehension is the study of the cognitive processes involved as people
process (and ultimately understand) the words, phrases, and sentences that make up larger …

Previous research has suggested that, relative to younger adults, older adults devote a
greater proportion of their discourse processing to the situation model level. The current …

An important aspect of event cognition is the segmentation of activity into events. However,
much of the research of event segmentation has involved materials that are very highly …