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The Construction of Situation Models in Narrative Comprehension: An Event-Indexing Model
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In this article, we propose and test a model of how readers construct representations of the situations described in simple narratives the event-indexing model According to the event-indexing model, events are the focal points of situations conveyed in narratives and are connected in memory along five dimensions time, space, protagonist, causality, and intentionality The results of a verb-clustering task provide strong support for the event-indexing model
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- Authors
- Zwaan, R. A., Langston, M. C., & Graesser, A. C.
- Venue
- Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1995-09
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 292-297
- ISSN
- 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9280
- OpenAlex
- W2112601319
- Cited by
- 925
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 157.55
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
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