Processes Involved in the Integration of Pictures and Discourse
Abstract
From 7/93 to 6/94 William Langston and Douglas Kramer continued work on a series of experiments investigating the use of spatial mental models to notice relationships (between objects) that have not been mentioned in a text (the series of experiments headed Experiment 1 in the proposal). From 7/93 to 12/93 the experiments were conducted using sentence reading time as a dependent variable to determine if readers, take longer to process a sentence in which the objects referred to in the sentence are far from the locus of attention (in a mental model) compare to when the objects in the sentence are near to the locus of attention. Subjects performed a diagram verification task after reading each text to encourage formation of spatial mental models. From 1/94 to 5/94 the experiments were redesigned to investigate the phenomenon in simpler arrangements (because subjects were not showing a noticing effect in the more complex design). For these experiments, subjects were asked to read texts describing a spatial arrangement of three objects. A manuscript describing the results of these experiments is currently in preparation. Also, this work was reported in Langston, W., Glenberg, A.M. Kramer, D.C. (1994) Mental models are not (very) spatial. Paper presented at the EARLI conference, Helsinki, Finland, June 1994, and in a colloquium given by Arthur Glenberg at the University of Minnesota.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1993
- Accession Number
- ADA282942
Entities
People
- Arthur M. Glenberg
Organizations
- University of Wisconsin Madison Department of Psychology