The Construction Of Mental Representations During Reading

Author : Herre van Oostendorp
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135688397
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Construction of Mental Representations During Reading written by Herre van Oostendorp and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents in-depth investigations of the processes of meaning-making during reading at both local (discourse) and global (general knowledge) levels. It considerably extends our knowledge of how mental representations are constructed and updated during reading. The book also provides insight into the process of representation construction by using online measures and relating this process with final memory representations; provides detailed models of these processes; pays attention to the coordination of multiple representations constructed; focuses on the monitoring and updating of mental representations; and applies all this knowledge to richer and more complicated texts than are often used in laboratories.

Author : Herre van Oostendorp
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135688400
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Construction of Mental Representations During Reading written by Herre van Oostendorp and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents in-depth investigations of the processes of meaning-making during reading at both local (discourse) and global (general knowledge) levels. It will be of theoretical and practical interest to cognitive scientists & reading researchers

Author : Edward J. O'Brien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131629904X
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inferences during Reading written by Edward J. O'Brien and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inferencing is defined as 'the act of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true', and it is one of the most important processes necessary for successful comprehension during reading. This volume features contributions by distinguished researchers in cognitive psychology, educational psychology, and neuroscience on topics central to our understanding of the inferential process during reading. The chapters cover aspects of inferencing that range from the fundamental bottom-up processes that form the basis for an inference to occur, to the more strategic processes that transpire when a reader is engaged in literary understanding of a text. Basic activation mechanisms, word-level inferencing, methodological considerations, inference validation, causal inferencing, emotion, development of inferences processes as a skill, embodiment, contributions from neuroscience, and applications to naturalistic text are all covered as well as expository text, online learning materials, and literary immersion.

Author : Bruce K. Britton
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317779657
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Models of Understanding Text written by Bruce K. Britton and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is text understanding? It is the dynamic process of constructing coherent representations and inferences at multiple levels of text and context, within the bottleneck of a limited-capacity working memory. The field of text and discourse has advanced to the point where researchers have developed sophisticated models of comprehension, and identified the particular assumptions that underlie comprehension mechanisms in precise analytical or mathematical detail. The models offer a priori predictions about thought and behavior, not merely ad hoc descriptions of data. Indeed, the field has evolved to a mature science. The contributors to this volume collectively cover the major models of comprehension in the field of text and discourse. Other books are either narrow -- covering only a single theoretical framework -- or do not focus on systematic modeling efforts. In addition, this book focuses on deep levels of understanding rather than language codes, syntax, and other shallower levels of text analysis. As such, it provides readers with up-to-date information on current psychological models specified in quantitative or analytical detail.

Author : Charles A. Weaver, III
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136482741
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse Comprehension written by Charles A. Weaver, III and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is derived from presentations given at a conference hosted in Boulder, Colorado in honor of the 60th birthday of Walter Kintsch. Though the contents of the talks, and thus the chapters, varied widely, all had one thing in common -- they were inspired to some degree by the work of Walter Kintsch. When making plans for an edited book centered around this conference, the editors had a primary goal: to acknowledge the wide variety of researchers and research areas Kintsch had influenced. As a consequence, one of the more unusual elements of this volume is the diversity of the contributors. Researchers from six different countries contributed chapters to this book which is loosely organized around three main thrusts of Kintsch's work: * text-based representations that explain how meaning in a text is constructed, * situation models which represent what the text is about rather than what a text literally says, and * the construction-integration model, Kintsch's most recent work in discourse comprehension.

Author : Joulia Smortchkova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190686677
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What are Mental Representations? written by Joulia Smortchkova and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of this book is mental representation, a theoretical concept that lies at the core of cognitive science. Together with the idea that thinking is analogous to computational processing, this concept is responsible for the "cognitive turn" in the sciences of the mind and brain since the 1950s. Conceiving of cognitive processes (such as perception, reasoning, and motor control) as consisting of the manipulation of contentful vehicles that represent the world has led to tremendous empirical advancements in our explanations of behaviour. Perhaps the most famous discovery that explains behavior by appealing to the notion of mental representations was the discovery of 'place' cells that underlie spatial navigation and positioning, which earned researchers John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser, and Edvard I. Moser a joint Nobel Prize in 2014. And yet, despite the empirical importance of the concept, there is no agreed definition or theoretical understanding of mental representation. This book constitutes a state-of-the-art overview on the topic of mental representation, assembling some of the leading experts in the field and allowing them to engage in meaningful exchanges over some of the most contentious questions. The collection gathers both proponents and critics of the notion, making room for debates dealing with the theoretical and ontological status of representations, the possibility of formulating a general account of mental representation which would fit our best explanatory practices, and the possibility of delivering such an account in fully naturalistic terms. Some contributors explore the relation between mutually incompatible notions of mental representation, stemming from the different disciplines composing the cognitive sciences (such as neuroscience, psychology, and computer science). Others question the ontological status and explanatory usefulness of the notion. And finally, some try to sketch a general theory of mental representations that could face the challenges outlined in the more critical chapters of the volume.

Author : Jean-François Rouet
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0805846026
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Skills of Document Use written by Jean-François Rouet and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Susan E. Israel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317639677
Total Pages : 709 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension written by Susan E. Israel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers of reading comprehension, literacy, educational psychology, psychology, and neuroscience are brought together for this handbook, to document and summarize the current body of research on theory, methods, instruction and assessment in reading comprehension.

Author : Eefje Claassen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027274932
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Author Representations in Literary Reading written by Eefje Claassen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Representations in Literary Reading investigates the role of the author in the mind of the reader. It is the first book-length empirical study on generated author inferences by readers of literature. It bridges the gap between theories which hold that the author is irrelevant and those that give him prominence. By combining insights and methods from both cognitive psychology and literary theory, this book contributes to a better understanding of how readers process literary texts and what role their assumptions about an author play. A series of experiments demonstrate that readers generate author inferences during the process of reading, which they use to create an image of the text’s author. The findings suggest that interpretations about the author play a pivotal role in the literary reading process. This book is relevant to scholars and students in all areas of the cognitive sciences, including literary studies and psychology.

Author : Alan Garnham
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Models as Representations of Discourse and Text written by Alan Garnham and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1987 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: