ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the availability of text elements over the course of reading a text. It describes the Landscape model that captures, in one theoretical framework, multiple cognitive processes during reading and the resulting fluctuating activations of text elements. The theoretical framework for the Landscape model assumes that concepts fluctuate in their activation along a continuum during reading rather than in an all-ornone manner. The chapter focuses on how the Landscape model captures the activation of concepts during reading, the model captures the developing memory representation. The architecture of the Landscape model consists of activation vectors that lead to a gradually emerging episodic memory representation of the text during reading. Central to the theoretical framework in the Landscape model is the notion that reading is a dynamic process in which many factors combine to create fluctuating activation vectors, eventually resulting in a stable memory representation of a text.
