It has been argued that people construct situation models during text reception and that
these are analogous, multimodal representations of text grounded in perception and action …

This study investigated whether presenting a picture before reading can encourage situation-
model construction. We compared two conditions (n= 30) which differed in whether a picture …

ABSTRACT A story's space or setting often determines and constrains the actions of its
characters. We report on an experiment with 106 children of 7–8 years old in which, using a …

We tested an embodied account of language proposing that comprehenders create
perceptual simulations of the events they hear and read about. In Experiment 1, children …

Based on an embodied account of language comprehension, this study investigated the
dynamic characteristics of children and adults' perceptual simulations during sentence …

The consensus view in cognitive psychology is that the construction of situation models is an
integral part of language comprehension. A great deal of empirical evidence supports this …

Readers construct mental models of situations described by text to comprehend what they
read, updating these situation models based on explicitly described and inferred information …

In our current culture, children are exposed to a huge amount of audiovisual media, of which
many formats include animated pictures, such as in videos, for instance. The current study …

This study investigated the effects of auditory and audiovisual text presentation on the three
levels of mental representations assumed in theories of discourse processing. A sample of …

Narratives are ubiquitous in human experience. They are the bestsellers we read on the
beach, the news stories we read online, and, most commonly, the anecdotes we hear from …