This article proposes an integrated cognitive theory of reading and listening that draws on a
maximalist account of comprehension and emphasizes the role of bottom-up and top-down …

Previous text comprehension studies using the contradiction paradigm primarily tested
assumptions of the activation mechanism involved in reading. However, the nature of the …

The goal of this chapter is to build on previous models of discourse comprehension that
break reading into two components: activation and integration. We describe a new model of …

What does it mean to be a competent reader in the twenty-first century? The fields of
education and psychology have been dominated by the persistent efforts of state and …

Although models of discourse comprehension share many local coherence processing
assumptions, the primary distinction that separates these models is how readers gain …

Nearly all texts require some level of inference on the part of the reader. The underlying
processes involved in inferencing fall into one of two broad categories: those that become …

Over the last few decades, research on inferencing in comprehension has advanced
considerably—across several cross‐disciplinary domains of study and levels of analysis …

Previous research has identified alliteration as a powerful device for investigating implicit
memory effects. For example, alliterative phrases can provide retrieval cues that extend to a …

This chapter focuses on describing fundamental assumptions and processes from
psychological models of discourse comprehension that may have particular relevance for …

In this study, we examined two issues regarding the role of context in ambiguity resolution:
whether access to the contextually appropriate meaning is exhaustive or selective, and …