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 ...
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 ...