ABSTRACT
Over the course of his highly productive career, Tom Trabasso has contributed greatly to advances in numerous areas of cognitive, developmental, and educational psychology. Indeed, the breadth and depth of his contributions is astonishing to contemplate and more than enough to have filled several research careers. The contributors to this volume honor Tom by writing about their research on discourse processing, an area in which Tom’s research has had an appreciable and sustained impact. We have chosen to write about our research regarding “focus in mental models” of narrative discourse, and to relate our recent studies to the “causal path analysis” of narratives provided in very influential papers published by Tom and his associates in the mid-1980s.
