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 …

This article sets out to examine the role of symbolic and sensorimotor representations in
discourse comprehension. It starts out with a review of the literature on situation models …

Abstract The use of Linear Mixed-effects Models (LMMs) is set to dominate statistical
analyses in psychological science and may become the default approach to analyzing …

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 …

This article presents a framework and methodology for designing learning goals targeted at
what students need to know and be able to do in order to attain high levels of literacy and …

Coh-Metrix is among the broadest and most sophisticated automated textual assessment
tools available today. Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix …

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 …

Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when
we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world …

In fall 1999, the Department of Education's Office of Educational Researchand Improvement
(OERI) asked RAND to examine how OERI might improve thequality and relevance of the …