Over the past several years, a number of studies have been done that assess processing at
the level of the situation model in relation to issues of aging (Morrow, Leirer, & Altieri, 1992; …

This work seeks to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when
they read literature. Despite the recent stylistic, linguistic, and cognitive advances that have …

Publisher Summary Most notably, comprehension necessitates the application of prior
knowledge in combination with the encoding of information currently in discourse focus …

In this regard, only with the substantive implications foregrounded, the present argument
complements that ''Telling in Time''series. Here, as there, vested group interests come …

Reading comprehension involves not just encoding information into memory, but also
updating and revising what is already known or believed. For example, as narrative plots …

Previous studies suggested that the emotional connotation of single words automatically
recruits attention. We investigated the potential of words to induce emotional engagement …

Research on text comprehension shows that readers construct a model of the situation
described in a narrative. A major factor in constructing a situational model is the perspective …

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 …

The current project examined the impact of knowledge about the credibility of sources on
readers' processing of texts. Participants read texts in which information about characters …

La comprensión de textos es una actividad psicológica que ha mantenido el interés de
investigadores en la ciencia cognitiva. Sin embargo, sólo recientemente han surgido …