Constructing inferences during narrative text comprehension.

By A. Graesser, Murray Singer, Tom Trabasso. 1994

Subfields: Question Answering & Reading Comprehension

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Neural Theory-of-Mind? On the Limits of Social Intelligence in Large LMs (2022, background): “Such static text is typically written such that readers only require the language itself as input, which they then combine with their world knowledge and commonsense to understand its meaning (Graesser et al., 1994).”
Emotion and memory narrowing: A review and goal-relevance approach (2009, background): “The results showed that, relative to the control group (no goal), people who had not achieved their goal (target not found) showed greater accessibility of goal-related words.”
Understanding script-based stories using commonsense reasoning (2004, background): “The degree to which readers generate inferences and construct mental models during reading is also debated (McKoon and Ratcliff, 1992; Graesser, Singer, and Trabasso, 1994).”
Coh-Metrix: Capturing Linguistic Features of Cohesion (2010, methodology): “The second approach was based on the causal constructionist model of narrative comprehension (e.g., Graesser, Singer, & Trabasso, 1994; Trabasso et al., 1984).”
Effects of Amount of Information on Judgment Accuracy and Confidence (2008, background): “A number of studies have shown that causal reasoning is largely influenced by the extent to which an explanation is perceived as coherent in terms of narrative structure or explanatory elements (Goldman, Graesser, & van den Broek, 1999; Graesser, Singer, & Trabasso, 1994; Hastie & Pennington, 2000”
PREG: Elements of a Model of Question Asking (2001, methodology): “Comprehension has sometimes been explicitly defined as the creation of an adequate situation (mental) model of the text (Glenberg et al., 1994; Graesser et al., 1994; Kintsch, 1998).”
The Immersed Experiencer: Toward An Embodied Theory Of Language Comprehension (2003, background): “Predictability Goals and causation have been demonstrated to play an important role in narrative comprehension (e.g., Graesser et al., 1994).”
The Relationship between Text Comprehension and Second Language Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition: A Matter of Topic Familiarity. (2004, background): “From research in psychology and SLA, we know that greater levels of background knowledge and expertise in a given subject matter contribute to efficiency of attentional allocation to input during reading, enabling richer analyses and textual interpretations, and, in turn, superior memory performance”
The relations between lower and higher level comprehension skills and their role in prediction of early reading comprehension. (2014, background): “…relations between lower- and higher-level language skills in young children Inferences as well as understanding of explicitly stated information are fundamental to the construction of an adequate representation of a narrative and good story comprehension (Graesser et al., 1994).”
Coh-Metrix: Analysis of text on cohesion and language (2004, background): “…only when the text refers to events and actions that are related causally, as in the case of science texts with causal mechanisms and stories with an action plot (Graesser et al., 1994; Trabasso & van den Broek, 1985; van den Broek, Virtue, Everson, Tzeng, & Sung, 2002; Zwaan & Radvansky, 1998).”
How does the mind construct and represent stories (2002, background): “25 these predictions are based on the constructionist theory (Graesser et al., 1994).”
Source Evaluation, Comprehension, and Learning in Internet Science Inquiry Tasks (2009, background): “…perspective, comprehension is a process in which learners attempt to construct mental models, also called situation models, of the subject matter that capture important concepts from the text and their relationships (Graesser, Singer & Trabasso, 1994; Kintsch, 1998; Otero, Leon, & Graesser, 2002).”