The Construction of Situation Models in Narrative Comprehension: An Event-Indexing Model

By Rolf A. Zwaan, M. Langston, A. Graesser. 1995

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Explanation in Human-AI Systems: A Literature Meta-Review, Synopsis of Key Ideas and Publications, and Bibliography for Explainable AI (2019, background): “…Hoffman, and Case(2014); Krull and Anderson (1997); Lombrozo (2007, 2010, 2010); McGill (1991); Rasmussen, Nixon, and Warner (1990); Samurçay and Hoc (1996); Selfridge, Daniell, and Simmons, D. (1985); Woodward, (2005); Zwaan, Langston, and Graesser (1995); Zwaan, Magliano, and Graesser (1995).”
Measuring Narrative Engagement (2009, background): “Most importantly, these models must be constantly updated as the narrative moves forward (Zwaan et al., 1995).”
A Cognitive View of Reading Comprehension: Implications for Reading Difficulties (2014, background): “These models include the Construction–Integration model (Kintsch & Van Dijk, 1978), the Landscape Model (Tzeng, van den Broek, Kendeou, & Lee, 2005; van den Broek, Young, Tzeng, & Linderholm, 1999), the Structure Building Model (Gernsbacher, 1990), the Resonance Model (Albrecht & O’Brien, 1993), the”
Enjoyment of films as a function of narrative experience, perceived realism and transportability (2011, unknown): “Mental models have often been used to explain how the audience makes sense of texts and filmic narratives (Wyer, 2004; Zwaan, Langston, and Graesser, 1995; Zwaan, Magliano, and Graesser, 1995).”
Segmentation in the perception and memory of events. (2008, background): “In the Event Indexing Model [ 13 ], new mental models are initiated when there is a change in space, time, protagonist, objects, goals or causes.”
Getting real about semantic illusions: rethinking the functional role of the P600 in language comprehension. (2012, background): “…mental models (Johnson-Laird, 1983), situation models (Kerkhofs and Haselager, 2006; Kintsch, 1988, 1998; van Dijk and Kintsch, 1983; Zwaan, 1999, 2003; Zwaan and Radvansky, 1998; Zwaan et al., 1995), message-level representations (Morris, 1994), or discourse representations (Kamp and Reyle, 1993).”
Indexing space and time in film understanding (2001, methodology): “Interestingly, this effect is consistent with that found in text comprehension (Zwaan et al., 1995b).”
Working memory in developing and applying mental models from spatial descriptions (2008, methodology): “Most work investigating situation models comes from narrative discourse (e.g., Zwaan, Radvansky, Hilliard, & Curiel, 1998; Zwaan et al., 1995).”