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Where is the body in the mental model for a story?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

Arthur C. Graesser
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and the Institute for Intelligent Systems, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152 a-graesser@memphis.edu www.psyc.memphis.edu/faculty/graesser/graesser.htm

Abstract

Researchers in the field of discourse processing have investigated how mental models are constructed when adults comprehend stories. They have explored the process of encoding various classes of inferences “on-line” when these mental microworlds are constructed during comprehension. This commentary addresses the extent to which these inferences and mental microworlds are “embodied.”

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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