ABSTRACT
The mental representation of what one reads is called a "situation model" or a "mental model." The process of reading causes an interaction of the new knowledge with what is already known. Though a number of theories and models have been proposed to describe this interaction, Tapiero proposes a new model that assumes a variety of storage areas to p
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Part I: Text Comprehension: What Kind of Mental Representation Does The Reader Build? The Internal “Objects” of Situation Models
part |1 pages
Part II: What Cognitive Mechanisms Are Involved in the Elaboration of a Situation Model?
part |3 pages
Part III: Contribution of Readers’ Knowledge to the Establishment of Global Coherence
part |2 pages
Part IV: Contribution of the Reader’s Knowledge and the Multidimensional Aspect of Situation Models: Importance of Causality and Emotion
