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Spatial Inferences in Narrative Comprehension: the Role of Verbal and Spatial Working Memory

2016

During the comprehension of narrative texts, readers keep a mental representation of the location of protagonists and objects; a breach in spatial coherence is detected by longer online reading times (consistency effect). We addressed whether these spatial inferences involve verbal or spatial working memory in two experiments, combining the consistency paradigm with selective verbal and spatial working memory concurrent tasks. The first experiment found longer reading times with a concurrent spatial task under imagery instructions (t33 = 2.87, p =.021). The second experiment, under comprehension reading instructions, found effects of verbal interference on reading times and accuracy. With a…

AdultMaleLinguistics and Languagemedia_common.quotation_subjectDISCOURSE PROCESSINGNARRATIVE COMPREHENSIONSpatial memory050105 experimental psychologyLanguage and LinguisticsThinkingCIENCIAS SOCIALESYoung Adult03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineReading (process)Humans0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesNarrativeWORKING MEMORYGeneral Psychologymedia_commonWorking memory05 social sciencesPsicologíaComprehensionMemory Short-TermReadingSpace PerceptionImaginationMental representationFemaleVerbal memorySPATIAL INFERENCESComprehensionPsychology030217 neurology & neurosurgerySentenceCognitive psychology
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