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 …

The goal of this chapter is to provide the foundation toward develo** a more
comprehensive model of reading comprehension. To this end, seven prominent …

Narrative is the basic mode of human interaction and a fundamental way of acquiring
knowledge. In the rapidly growing field of health communication, narrative approaches are …

This article offers a theoretical framework to explain circumstances under which perceptions
of “unrealness” affect engagement in narratives and subsequent perceived realism …

For the past twenty years there has been a virtual consensus in philosophy that there is a
special link between fiction and the imagination. In particular, fiction has been defined in …

The Skills of Document Use: From Text Comprehension to Web-Based Learning examines
functional literacy from a psychological standpoint. It offers a comprehensive discussion of …

Understanding how people comprehend visual narratives (including picture stories, comics,
and film) requires the combination of traditionally separate theories that span the initial …

When reading a story or watching a film, comprehenders construct a series of
representations in order to understand the events depicted. Discourse comprehension …

Filmmakers use continuity editing to engender a sense of situational continuity or
discontinuity at editing boundaries. The goal of this study was to assess the impact of …

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 …