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 …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the mental model construct in cognitive science.
The chapter discusses the definitions and aspects of mental models. To demonstrate the …

En un reciente estudio de la OCDE, España aparecía en los últimos puestos en la
comprensión del lenguaje oral y escrito, entre otras disciplinas. Este hecho pone de …

This paper provides a general framework for the analysis of descriptions of routes, in order
to account for the way in which spatial cognition is externalized through discourse. Three …

Abstract Previous research (JE Albrecht & EJ O'Brien, 1993) demonstrated that readers were
aware of an inconsistency between an earlier described characteristic of a protagonist and a …

In this study, we examine the relation between reading comprehension ability and success
in working memory updating tasks. Groups of poor and good comprehenders, matched for …

Four experiments were carried out to investigate how general knowledge about the
stereotypical gender of participants in a text influences comprehension. A self-paced …

We investigated the extent to which understanders monitor shifts in time and space during
film comprehension. Participants viewed a feature‐length film and identified those points in …

In this research, we examined the relation between reading comprehension and success in
a working memory updating task. We tested the hypotheses that poor comprehenders' …

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