Bridging a Gap in Coherence: The Coordination of Comprehension Processes When Viewing Visual Narratives.

ABSTRACT: Scene Perception and Event Comprehension Theory (SPECT) posits that understanding picture stories depends upon a coordination of two processes: (1) integrating new information into the current event model that is coherent with it (i.e., mapping) and (2) segmenting experiences into distinct event models (i.e., shifting). In two experiments, we investigated competing hypotheses regarding how viewers coordinate the mapping process of bridging inference generation and the shifting process of event segmentation by manipulating the presence/absence of Bridging Action pictures (i.e., creating coherence gaps) in wordless picture stories. The Computational Effort Hypothesis says that experiencing a coherence gap prompts event segmentation and the additional computational effort to generate bridging

SUBMITTER: Smith ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11417950 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature