This chapter introduces the construction of the Modern Reader, which reflects the fact that the modern era has changed the game for reading literacy. It discusses how the challenges …
Visual narratives, including graphic novels, illustrated instructions, and picture books, convey event sequences constituting a plot but cannot depict all events that make up the …
An important aspect of event cognition is the segmentation of activity into events. However, much of the research of event segmentation has involved materials that are very highly …
We experience narratives in a variety of formats (auditory, print, electronic) and media. We can hear, read, view (static visual narratives, graphic novels, and comics), and watch them …
This chapter explores how adapted graphic narratives are processed and the way that encoding conditions affect the detection of discrepancies between versions of a narrative. If …
To construct a coherent mental model of a text, readers generate inferences. This chapter draws on cognitive theories of text and discourse to examine how and under what conditions …
Contemporary theories of narrative comprehension assume that people build mental models for narrative experiences that are structured around situational relationships such as time …
A Elfenbein - Handbook of Empirical Literary Studies, 2021 - books.google.com
To construct a coherent mental model of a text, readers generate inferences. This chapter draws on cognitive theories of text and discourse to examine how and under what conditions …
J Orth - Seeing into Screens: Eye Tracking and the Moving …, 2018 - books.google.com
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows [2011]). Concurrently, the puzzle film has emerged as a new type of screen mystery, using complex storytelling to create a problem for viewers …