The authors describe a constructionist theory that accounts for the knowledge-based
inferences that are constructed when readers comprehend narrative text. Readers …

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 …

People frequently rely on information even after it has been retracted, a phenomenon known
as the continued-influence effect of misinformation. One factor proposed to explain the …

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 …

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

Let's start from scratch in thinking about what memory is for, and consequently, how it works.
Suppose that memory and conceptualization work in the service of perception and action. In …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Long studied by anthropologists, historians, and linguists, oral traditions have provided a
wealth of fascinating insights into unique cultural customs that span the history of …