The structure of situation models as revealed by anaphor resolution

Publication date: Available online 14 September 2018Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Sashank Varma, Amanda JanssenAbstractThis paper investigates the structure of situation models as revealed by the process of anaphor resolution. The situation model for a text combines the meanings of its individual sentences with inferences generated from prior knowledge into an overall understanding of the text. We conceptualize situation models as implemented by collections of traces in episodic long-term memory that are retrieved based on their similarity to cues in working memory. Traces encode both contextual (i.e., spatial and temporal) and semantic information, providing structure to situation models. Four predictions were derived regarding the retrieval of antecedent traces during anaphor resol...

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