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 reviews research on the use of situation models in language comprehension and
memory retrieval over the past 15 years. Situation models are integrated mental …

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 …

Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a
great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been …

Remembering the sequence of events is critical for deriving meaning from our experiences
and guiding behavior. Prior investigations into the function of the human hippocampus have …

In this article, we propose and test a model of how readers construct representations of the
situations described in simple narratives the event-indexing model According to the event …

People perceive and conceive of activity in terms of discrete events. Here the authors
propose a theory according to which the perception of boundaries between events arises …

A Map to the Magic of Reading Stop for a moment and wonder: what's happening in your
brain right now—as you read this paragraph? How much do you know about the …

▪ Abstract The field of discourse processing has dissected many of the levels of
representation that are constructed when individuals read or listen to connected discourse …

1. Words activate brain regions that are close to or overlap with brain areas that are active
during perception of or actions involving the words' referents (Isenberg et al., 1999; Martin & …