When prospective information conflicts with current information

ML Rizzella, EJ O'Brien - Discourse Processes, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We examined the impact of prospective information on the processing of information
occurring within the present timeline of narrative stories. Participants read target sentences …

Exploring the spatial gradient effect in narratives

ER Smith, RB Lea, EJ O'Brien - Discourse Processes, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The current set of experiments was designed to explore the processing of spatial information
during reading, specifically the spatial-shift effect and the spatial-gradient effect …

Interpretation as Play: A Cognitive Psychological Model of Inference and Situation Model Construction

M Higgins - International Conference on Interactive Digital …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Interpretation of narrative can itself be considered a form of play that is
psychologically engaging and effortful. Previous work has provided initial considerations of …

[PDF][PDF] Cognitive psychological principles for game design to facilitate narrative interpretation as play

M Higgins - 2021 - researchportal.port.ac.uk
In discussion of digital games that prioritise the experience of story over other forms of
gameplay, it is found that perspectives in games research and practice often consider the …

Do Readers Keep Track of Protagonist Identity in Narratives?

S Skrivanos - 2025 - scholarworks.uark.edu
The purpose of this research was to further investigate conflicting findings in the literature
regarding the processes readers use to maintain and update their mental representation of …

Updating of Protagonist Information in Narratives

L McClanahan - 2023 - scholarworks.uark.edu
The purpose of the present research was to further examine contested findings in the
research literature surrounding the processes readers use to maintain and update their …

[PDF][PDF] Exploring the Spatial Gradient Effect

ER Smith, EJ O'Brien - 2020 - easychair.org
We examined the limitations of the spatial gradient effect, or decrease in availability of
objects/locations as a function of distance traveled. Across three experiments we used …

Développement des processus inférentiels chez l'enfant de 8 à 11 ans lors d'une activité de compréhension en situation de lecture

H Guinet - 2023 - hal.science
Comprendre un texte, c'est être capable de construire une représentation cohérente de la
situation évoquée par le texte, qui repose essentiellement sur l'habileté à produire des …