Cliffhangers as a Profitable Stylistic Device in Reading Promotion? Results of a Randomized Controlled Pilot Study on the Effects of Varying Text Arrangements on Reading Enjoyment and Memory of Text Content of ...
Reading is search for meaning – and learning to read demands more than mere training of skillsAbstract. Concepts of instruction are based on quite different concepts of learning and of competing explanations of problems. This article shows that ...
Construction of visio-spatial representations during listening and reading comprehensionAbstract. In learning environments, information can be presented as visual or auditory text. However, the question remains unanswered whether there are differences ...
The aim of the present study was to investigate children's ability to complete idiom fragments embedded in stories. Previous studies found that children's and preadolescents' ability to comprehend a text was related to their ability to understand an ...
Zusammenfassung. Nach dem Modell ITERA (Nerb, Spada & Wahl, 1998; Nerb & Spada, 2001) löst die Lektüre von Zeitungsmeldungen über Umweltschadensfälle kognitive und emotionale Bewertungen aus. Das Modell erlaubt präzise Vorhersagen über Kohärenzeffekte: ...
Abstract. Anaphor resolution has been found to depend on the spatial distance between the reader’s focus of attention and the location of the anaphor referent in a spatially organized situation model (spatial distance effect; Rinck & Bower, 1995; Morrow ...
Hypertext research results suggest that building a correct representation of the hypertext structure enables users to navigate effectively within the text. Therefore, text comprehension processes involved in hypertext reading should be investigated. In an ...
Egocentric inference of object positions during reading and listeningAbstract. Subjects read narratives describing several objects surrounding a protagonist. In taking the protagonist's perspective, subjects constructed egocentric mental models of the ...
Wall or no Wall? The representation of spatial changes in situation modelsAbstract. Two experiments were carried out to answer the following questions: Do readers integrate spatial changes described in naturalistic narratives into situation models? And ...
Strategic focusing of attention during narrative readingAbstract. In 2 experiments based on the constructionist view of text comprehension, we investigated whether readers are able to strategically use, in a problem solving matter, spatial and temporal ...
Mental models of social interactions: How readers comprehend texts about cheating behaviorsAbstract. A cheating loop is a particular pattern of social exchanges in which two partners, who are bound to one another by a social contract, interact with a ...
Influence of the type of visualization on the construction of mental models during picture and text comprehensionAbstract. The following article describes an integrative model of text and picture comprehension. Text and picture comprehension is ...
Inferring time-dependent changes of entities during readingAbstract. The present paper adresses the question as to whether readers exploit temporal text information for inferring changes in properties of objects (e.g., hot chocolate becomes cold). In the ...
Mental models of fictional characters' mental states and actionsAbstract. This research work addresses the issue whether mental models including the representation of the protagonist's mental state allow readers to detect inconsistencies. An experiment ...