This book presents a new theoretical framework--what Gernsbacher calls the Structure
Building Framework--for understanding language comprehension in particular, and …

Publisher Summary This chapter explores that language is viewed as a specialized skill
involving language-specific processes and language-specific mechanisms. Another position …

I have proposed previously that language comprehension can be described as structure
building, and I have sketched a simple framework to use as a guide. I call this framework the …

The effect of research findings concerning language comprehension on the understanding
of the organization of cognition is examined. Principles underlying general cognitive …

During the past decade I have been developing a very simple framework for describing the
cognitive processes and mechanisms involved in discourse comprehension. I call this …

Considerable empirical evidence indicates that perceivers construct a grammatical
representation of sentences during comprehension. The principles underlying constituent …

The construction-integration model describes the interplay between top-down and bottom-
up processes in comprehension: how top-down processes guide comprehension and how …

The comprehension of speech is clearly an integrative process. In fact, such a statement
seems so self-evident as to be nearly tautologous; to understand an utterance we must, in …

Cognition: Conceptual and Methodological Issues Page 1 CHAPTER 6 A Cogmtive
Architecture for Comprehension Walter Kintsch Cognitive Architectures Functional Relations …

This chapter describes a general theory of comprehension. The theory of text
comprehension is a comprehension model in the sense, but it leaves room for problem …