ABSTRACT
The comprehension of a text must involve something more than the recognition of words and the parsing of sentences into propositional units. Presumably, the representation constructed by a reader involves not only explicit text propositions but inferences based upon those propositions and the reader's knowledge of the world. These inferences may link propositions and concepts that are widely separated in the physical text. Much recent research on text comprehension focuses on what inferences are drawn and what connections exist among the propositions that are represented in the reader's memory of a text.
