Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zwaan, Rolf A.
• van Oostendorp, Herre

Titel

Do readers construct spatial representations in naturalistic story comprehension?

Ist Teil von

• Discourse processes, 1993-01, Vol.16 (1-2), p.125-143

Ort / Verlag

Norwood, N.J: Taylor & Francis Group

Erscheinungsjahr

1993

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This study investigated whether spatial situation models are constructed in naturalistic story comprehension. The experiment featured a relatively complex, naturalistic text. When college students were given a normal reading instruction, they processed spatial information relatively fast and were relatively poor in verifying spatial inferences, compared to subjects given a spatial reading instruction. Additional analyses showed that the possession of a relatively strong spatial representation does not influence the processing and representation of subsequent spatial information under a normal reading instruction. Therefore, during normal reading, readers are not very much engaged in constructing, maintaining, and updating a spatial situation model.