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 …

Common to all models of reading comprehension is the assumption that a reader's level of
comprehension is heavily influenced by their standards of coherence (van den Broek …

The last decade of research in text processing has been marked by a debate between
opposing views of comprehension: One side emphasizes discourse processing from the …

The goal of this chapter is to build on previous models of discourse comprehension that
break reading into two components: activation and integration. We describe a new model of …

As readers move through a text, they engage in various types of processes that, if all goes
well, result in a mental representation that captures their interpretation of the text. With each …

In this article, we discuss 2 issues that we believe any theory of discourse comprehension
has to take account of-accessing irrelevant information and granularity. Along the lines that …

We propose a discourse analysis and connectionist model that, together, provides a
quantitative account for accessing and making available information from clauses over the …

Text comprehension theories propose that readers try to achieve a coherent representation
of the situation depicted in a text. When reading multiple texts on the same topic, however …

In psychological research, the comprehension of linguistic information and the knowledge-
based assessment of its validity are often regarded as two separate stages of information …