A story comprehension task was specifically developed for the clinical diagnosis of text
comprehension deficits. The performance of 49 healthy control participants on qualitatively …

One approach to doing science is to extend and tune the major paradigms of a field.
Examples of paradigms in social cognition include the formation of person impressions, the …

Human communication is based on signs, which are used by individuals in order to
exchange information (Bühler, 1934). These signs can be verbal signs, as in the case of …

Four experiments examined the conceptual organization of narrative passages and the
extent to which these representations were explanatory in a variety of experimental tasks …

Natural language discourse, when viewed from a cognitive and psychological perspective,
is a manifestation in extended natural language productions of conceptual representations …

This research examines the effects of structure and content variables on memory and
comprehension of prose passages. A process model for the comprehension of stories is …

In a series of experiments we investigated the nature of mental representations created
during narrative comprehension. Subjects learned the layout of a research center and then …

We evaluate the “story grammar” approach to story understanding from three perspectives.
We first examine the formal properties of the grammars and find only one to be formally …

Narrative comprehension rests on the ability to understand the intentions and perceptions of
various agents in a story who interact with respect to some goal or problem. Reasoning …

Publisher Summary This chapter highlights some key neuroimaging studies of discourse
processing. Some of the components of discourse processing revealed by neuroimaging …