Document Type
Honors Project
Abstract
Comprehending text involves the convergence of top-down, expectation-driven processes and bottom-up, stimulus-driven processes. The precise nature of this convergence, however, is not well understood. The current study used narrative time shifts and shifts in protagonist goal, both hypothesized to encourage event-segmented memory representations, to investigate the interaction between automatic and constructive memory processes during reading. The addition of time and goal shifts was found to have no effect on the automatic retrieval of information from memory. The results are interpreted as support for the bottom-up account of retrieval of information during reading, and for the idea that the top-down account is best applied to the integration of information after retrieval.
Recommended Citation
Brenner, Charles Baker, "Event Segmentation and Memory Retrieval in Reading Comprehension" (2010). Linguistics Honors Projects. 6.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/ling_honors/6
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