Processing narrative time shifts

被引:246
作者
Zwaan, RA
机构
[1] Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee
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10.1037/0278-7393.22.5.1196
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
This study examined how the chronological distance between 2 consecutively narrated story events affects the on-line comprehension and mental representation of these events. College students read short narrative passages from a computer screen and responded to recognition probes. The results of 4 experiments consistently demonstrated that readers used temporal information to construct situation models while comprehending narratives. First, sentence reading times increased when there was a narrative time shift (e.g., as denoted by an hour later) as opposed to when there was no narrative time shift (e.g., as denoted by a moment later). Second, information from the previously narrated event was less accessible when it was followed by a time shift than when it was not. Third, 2 events that were separated by a narrative time shift were less strongly connected in long-term memory than 2 events that were not separated by a narrative time shift. The results suggest that readers use a strong iconicity assumption during story comprehension.
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页码:1196 / 1207
页数:12
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