Prose Comprehension Beyond the Word

Prose Comprehension Beyond the Word
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 319
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ISBN-10 : 9781461258803
ISBN-13 : 1461258804
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Download or read book Prose Comprehension Beyond the Word written by A.C. Graesser and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When individuals read or listen to prose they try to understand what it means. This is quite obvious. However, the cognitive mechanisms that participate in prose comprehension are far from obvious. Even simple stories involve com plexities that have stymied many cognitive scientists. Why is prose comprehen sion so difficult to study? Perhaps because comprehension is guided by so many domains of knowledge. Perhaps because some critical mysteries of prose comprehension reside between the lines-in the mind of the comprehender. Ten years ago very few psychologists were willing to dig beyond the surface of explicit code in their studies of discourse processing. Tacit knowledge, world knowledge, inferences, and expectations were slippery notions that experimental psychologists managed to circumvent rather than understand. In many scientific circles it was taboo to investigate mechanisms and phenomena that are not directly governed by the physical stimulus. Fortunately, times have changed. Cognitive scientists are now vigorously exploring the puzzles of comprehension that lie beyond the word. The study of discourse processing is currently growing at a frenetic pace.


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When individuals read or listen to prose they try to understand what it means. This is quite obvious. However, the cognitive mechanisms that participate in pros