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 …

The overall goal of this target article is to demonstrate a mechanism for an embodied
cognition. The particular vehicle is a much-studied, but still widely debated phenomenon …

Background knowledge is essential for understanding. Our question concerns the nature of
that knowledge: Is background knowledge solely descriptive and abstract, that is, consisting …

Spatial competence is a central aspect of human adaptation. To understand human
cognitive functioning, we must understand how people code the locations of things, how …

We examined which dimensions of the situation model (time, space, causation, motivation,
and protagonist) are monitored by readers during narrative comprehension. Clause or …

This research considers how distinct news frames work in combination to influence
information processing. It extends framing research grounded in prospect theory (Tversky & …

Two experiments investigated the processing of the spatial and causal dimensions of
situation models. In Experiment 1, participants read texts varying in spatial and causal …

The mental representation of what one reads is called a" situation model" or a" mental
model." The process of reading causes an interaction of the new knowledge with what is …

This thesis introduces the new research focus Knowledge Visualization. To do so, it provides
two theoretical and four practical contributions on how complementary visual …

Scale is one of the thematic threads that runs through nearly all of the sciences and is
considered one of the major prevailing ideas of science. This study explored novice and …