When reading a narrative, comprehension and retention of information benefit considerably
from the use of situation models—coherent representations of the characters, locations, and …

Story comprehension involves building a situation model of the text, ie, a representation
containing information on the who, where, when and why of the story. Using fMRI at 3T …

Abstract Language comprehension in everyday life requires the continuous integration of
prior discourse context and general world knowledge with the current utterance or sentence …

Context exerts a powerful effect on cognitive performance and is clearly important for
language processing, where lexical, sentential, and narrative contexts should differentially …

The embodied view of language processing proposes that comprehension involves
multimodal simulations, a process that retrieves a comprehender's perceptual, motor, and …

Narrative comprehension involves a constant interplay of the accumulation of incoming
events and their integration into a coherent structure. This study characterizes cognitive …

Schematic prior knowledge can scaffold the construction of event memories during
perception and also provide structured cues to guide memory search during retrieval. We …

The ability to segment continuous linguistic information online into larger, meaningful units is
a key element in narrative comprehension. Narrative shifts, ie transitions between individual …

Reading a book, understanding the news reports or any other behaviour involving the
processing of meaningful stimuli requires the semantic system to have two main features …

A great deal of research has examined the role of situation models in text comprehension
and memory (see Zwaan & Radvansky, 1998, for a review). This research suggests that …