Segmentation in reading and film comprehension.

ABSTRACT: When reading a story or watching a film, comprehenders construct a series of representations in order to understand the events depicted. Discourse comprehension theories and a recent theory of perceptual event segmentation both suggest that comprehenders monitor situational features such as characters' goals, to update these representations at natural boundaries in activity. However, the converging predictions of these theories had previously not been tested directly. Two studies provided evidence that changes in situational features such as characters, their locations, their interactions with objects, and their goals are related to the segmentation of events in both narrative texts and films. A 3rd study indicated that clauses with event boundaries are read more slowly than are other clau

SUBMITTER: Zacks JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8710938 | biostudies-literature | 2009 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature