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Dimensions of situation model construction in narrative comprehension.
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This article is published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition.The article was published on 1995-03-01. It has received 569 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Reading comprehension & Technical peer review.read more
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Situation Models in Language Comprehension and Memory
TL;DR: The authors argue that the time has now come for researchers to begin to take the multidimensionality of situation models seriously and offer a theoretical framework and some methodological observations that may help researchers to tackle this issue.
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Reading for Understanding: Toward an R&D Program in Reading Comprehension
TL;DR: It is argued that the primary challenge of improving reading performance in the early grades is now to incorporate research based knowledge systematically into teacher preparation and practice.
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What memory is for.
TL;DR: Practical work in cognitive science and empirical work in memory and language comprehension are reviewed that suggest that it may be possible to investigate connections between topics as disparate as infantile amnesia and mental-model theory.
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Embodiment and Cognitive Science
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the relationship between perception, memory, and reasoning in the development of a person's emotional and cognitive development, and conclude that "emotion and consciousness" are the most important factors in human development.
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Event perception: a mind-brain perspective.
TL;DR: A theory according to which the perception of boundaries between events arises from ongoing perceptual processing and regulates attention and memory is proposed.
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Actual Minds, Possible Worlds.
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Toward a model of text comprehension and production.
Walter Kintsch,Teun A. van Dijk +1 more
TL;DR: The semantic structure of texts can be described both at the local microlevel and at a more global macrolevel, and a model for text comprehension based on this notion accounts for the formation of a coherent semantic text base in terms of a cyclical process constrained by limitations of working memory.
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Strategies of Discourse Comprehension
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Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a reader's retelling of "Clay" by James Joyce and compare it with a novel version of the same story written by Anne Frank.