Discourse comprehension research demonstrates that understanding new information as it
arises in a text, requires that readers retrieve information from earlier in the text and from …

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

Previous text comprehension studies using the contradiction paradigm primarily tested
assumptions of the activation mechanism involved in reading. However, the nature of the …

Text understanding involves more than the construction and retrieval of a mental
representation of the explicit text. Rather, understanding is achieved when readers are able …

We suggest that when readers experience narratives, their expectations about the likelihood
of narrative events are informed by two types of analyses. Reality-driven analyses …

Reading comprehension involves not just encoding information into memory, but also
updating and revising what is already known or believed. For example, as narrative plots …

This study focuses on the role played by cognitive coherence in non-expert readers'
comprehension of structurally complex cases of literary discourse, both poetry and prose …

Based on research on truth claims in the psychology literature, many scholars believe that
readers and viewers of narratives start with an assumption of realism and adjust that …

Do readers encode the perceptual perspectives of characters during narrative
comprehension? To address this question, we conducted two experiments using stories that …

We experience narratives in a variety of formats (auditory, print, electronic) and media. We
can hear, read, view (static visual narratives, graphic novels, and comics), and watch them …