ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 focused largely on the comprehension of statements about single events of the sort that are represented in memory as event models. Most of the information we acquire in daily life, however, consists of sequences of events that theoretically give rise to the construction of multiple-segment episode models. To understand the conditions in which these models are constructed, several questions must be answered. These questions concern the number of episode models that are formed from a given sequence of events, the role of thematic relatedness in the construction of these models, and the way in which the temporal order of events is reconstructed when the events are not contained in the same model. We attempt to provide tentative answers to these questions in this chapter.
