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Long, Debra L.; Johns, Clinton L.; Jonathan, Eunike – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
According to most theories of text comprehension, readers construct and store in memory at least two inter-related representations: a text base containing the explicit ideas in a text and a discourse model that contains the overall meaning or "gist" of a text. The authors propose a refinement of this view in which text representations are…
Descriptors: Memory, Reading Comprehension, Cognitive Processes, Familiarity