While substantial effort has been invested in making robots more reliable, experience
demonstrates that robots operating in unstructured environments are often challenged by …

It is argued that interest is central in determining how we select and persist in processing
certain types of information in preference to others. Evidence that shows that both individual …

Coh-Metrix is among the broadest and most sophisticated automated textual assessment
tools available today. Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix …

Argues that the semantic structure of texts can be described both at the local microlevel and
at a more global macrolevel. A model for text comprehension based on this notion accounts …

In this book, Walter Kintsch presents a theory of human text comprehension and extends his
analysis to related areas. Comprehension is conceptualized as a two-stage process: first …

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 …

This critical volume, provides an in-depth analysis of second language reading's multiple
dimensions. The paperback edition describes the complexity of reading and explains how …

Rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) is a method for bypassing eye movements during
reading. In RSVP, each word (or small group of words) appears in the same location …

Most current theories of text processing assume a constructionist view of inference
processing. In this article, an alternative view is proposed, labeled the minimalist hypothesis …

The effects of structure and content variables on memory and comprehension of prose
passages were studied in two experiments. The experimental passages exemplify a class of …