Readers mentally simulate the objects and events described in narratives. One common
assumption is that readers mentally embody an actor's perspective; alternatively, readers …

Recent studies suggest that readers develop richer multidimensional situation models when
they mentally participate as characters in narrative worlds. The present study tested this by …

Recent research has suggested that reading involves the mental simulation of events and
actions described in a text. It is possible however that previous findings did not tap into …

The present study examines whether readers of narratives focus on information relevant to
the protagonist's perspective even when this information is implied rather than explicitly …

Do readers encode the perceptual perspectives of characters during narrative
comprehension? To address this question, we conducted two experiments using stories that …

The authors describe a constructionist theory that accounts for the knowledge-based
inferences that are constructed when readers comprehend narrative text. Readers …

Personal pronouns have been shown to influence cognitive perspective taking during
comprehension. Studies using single sentences found that 3rd person pronouns facilitate …

We suggest that when readers experience narratives, their expectations about the likelihood
of narrative events are informed by two types of analyses. Reality-driven analyses …

Reading comprehension involves not just encoding information into memory, but also
updating and revising what is already known or believed. For example, as narrative plots …

Goal and source thematic roles have been shown to influence pronoun resolution, an effect
that has been linked to the reader's tendency to focus on the consequences of the event …