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Discourse Processes Volume 26, 1998 - Issue 2-3: Memory-Based Text Processing
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Accessing the discourse representation during reading

Jerome L. Myers Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Tobin Hall, Box 37710, Amherst, MA, 01003–7710 E-mail: [email protected]
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Edward J. O'Brien Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 03824 E-mail: [email protected]
Pages 131-157 | Published online: 11 Nov 2009
 
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Abstract

The process of text comprehension requires the integration of the information in the sentence currently being read with information previously read. This, in turn, implies that information presented earlier in the text must be accessed. We present a view of that access process as one in which concepts and propositions in the discourse representation resonate in response to related elements in the current sentence, initiating a process that makes available a subset of the information in the representation. In support of our position, we summarize the effects of several variables that have been shown to affect the availability of information in the discourse representation, and we describe a simulation model of the hypothesized resonance process, together with the results of several applications of that model.

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