Theory and Review papers:

    Zwaan, R.A., (1993). Aspects of literary comprehension: A cognitive approach. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
    Zwaan, R.A. (1996). Towards a model of literary comprehension. In: B.K. Britton & A.C. Graesser (Eds.) Models of understanding text (pp. 241-255). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
    Graesser, A.C., Millis, K.K., & Zwaan, R.A. (1997). Discourse comprehension. Annual Review of Psychology, 48, 163-189.
    Radvansky, G. A., & Zacks, R. T.  (1997).  The retrieval of situation-specific information.  In M. A. Conway (Ed.)  Cognitive Models of Memory, pp. 173-213. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
    Zwaan, R. A., & Radvansky, G. A. (in press).  Situation models in language comprehension and memoryPsychological Bulletin.
    Wyer, R. S., & Radvansky, G. A. (submitted)  The Comprehension and Validation of Social Information: The Role of Situation Models

Multidimensionality papers:

    Zwaan, R. A., Langston, M. C., & Graesser, A. C. (1995) The construction of situation models in narrative comprehension: an event-indexing model. Psychological Science, 6, 292-297.
    Zwaan, R. A., Magliano, J. P., & Graesser, A. C. (1995) Dimensions of situation-model construction in narrative comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 386-397.
     Zwaan, R. A., Radvansky, G. A., Hilliard, A. E., & Curiel, J. M. (in press). Constructing multidimensional situation models during reading. Scientific Studies of Reading.
    Magliano, J. P., Zwaan, R. A., & Graesser, A. C. (in press). The role of situational continuity in narrative understanding. In: S. R. Goldman & H. van Oostendorp (Eds.). The construction of mental representations during reading. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
    Zwaan, R. A., Charness, N., & Dijkstra, K. (submitted). Situation models, processing speed, and cognitive aging.

Spatial-Temporal Framework papers:

     Radvansky, G. A., Wyer, R. S., Curiel, J. C., & Lutz, M. F.  (1997).  Situation models and abstract ownership relationsJournal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 23, 1233-1246.
 

Primary Temporal:

    Graesser, A. C., Kassler, M. A., Dijkstra, K., Zwaan, R. A., McLain Allen, B. (1995). Comprehending novel mental models of time in Einstein's Dreams. In G. Rusch (Ed.), Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (pp. 348-353). Siegen, Germany: Siegen University Press.
    Zwaan, R.A. (1996). Processing narrative time shifts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 22, 1196-1207.
    Radvansky, G. A., Zwaan, R. A., Federico, T., & Franklin, N.  (in press) Retrieval from temporally organized situation models. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
    Zwaan, R.A., & Whitten, S.N. (submitted) Effects of temporal markers and discourse order on situation-model construction.

Primarily Spatial:

    Radvansky, G. A., & Zacks, R. T. (1991).  Mental models and the fan effectJournal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 17, 940-953.
    Radvansky, G. A., Spieler, D. H., & Zacks, R. T. (1993).  Mental model organizationJournal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 19, 95-114.
    Zwaan, R.A., & Van Oostendorp, H. (1993) Do readers construct spatial representations in naturalistic story comprehension? Discourse Processes, 16, 125-143.
    Zwaan, R.A., & van Oostendorp, H. (1994). Spatial information and naturalistic story comprehension. In H. van Oostendorp and R.A. Zwaan (Eds.) Naturalistic text comprehension (pp. 97-114). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
    Radvansky, G. A., Zacks, R. T., & Hasher, L.  (1996).  Fact retrieval in younger and older adults:  The role of mental modelsPsychology and Aging, 11, 258-271.
    Radvansky, G. A. (in press).  The organization of information retrieved from situation modelsPsychonomic Bulletin & Review.
    Radvansky, G. A. (submitted)  Memory retrieval and inhibition: A case involving situation models.

Entity and Property papers:

    Kneepkens, E.W., & Zwaan, R.A. (1994) Emotions and literary text comprehension. Poetics, 23, 125-138.
    Dijkstra, K., Zwaan, R.A., Magliano, J.P., & Graesser, A.C. (1994). Reader and character emotions in literary narrative. Poetics, 23, 139-157.
    Lutz, M. F., & Radvansky, G. A.  (1997).  The fate of completed goal information in narrative comprehensionJournal of Memory and Language, 36, 293-310.
    Radvansky, G. A., & Curiel, J. M.  (in press).  Narrative comprehension and aging: The fate of completed goal informationPsychology and Aging

Relational Information papers:

    Carlson-Radvansky, L. A., & Radvansky, G. A. (1996).  The influence of functional relations on spatial term selectionPsychological Science, 7, 56-60.
    Magliano, J.P., Dijkstra, K., & Zwaan, R.A. (1996). Predictive inferences in movies. Discourse Processes, 22, 199-224.

Situation Model Construction papers:

    Radvansky, G. A., Gerard, L. D., Zacks, R. T., & Hasher, L. (1990). Younger and older adults' use of mental models as representations for text materials. Psychology and Aging, 5, 209-214.
    Zwaan, R.A., & Graesser, A.C. (1993). Reading goals and situation models: A commentary on Glenberg & Mathew. Psycoloquy 4(5).reading.inference.5.
    Zwaan, R.A., & Graesser, A.C. (1993). There is no empirical evidence that inferences are generated automatically or partially: A commentary on Garnham. Psycoloquy 4(5). reading-inference.6.
    Zwaan, R.A., (1994). Effect of genre expectations on text comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20, 920-933.

Other Situation Model papers:

    Graesser, A.C., & Zwaan, R.A. (1995). Inference generation and the construction of situation models. In: C. Weaver, S. Mannes, & C.R. Fletcher (Eds.) Discourse comprehension: Strategies and processes revisited. Essays in honor of Walter Kintsch (pp. 117-139). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
    Zwaan, R.A., & Brown, C.M. (1996). The influence of language proficiency and comprehension skill on situation model construction. Discourse Processes, 21, 289-327.
    Zwaan, R.A., & Hilliard, A.E. (submitted) Assessing situation models in long-term memory.

Related Topics:


    Van Oostendorp, H., & Zwaan, R.A. (Eds.) (1994). Naturalistic text comprehension. Advances in Discourse Processing., Vol. LIII. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
    Curiel, J. C., & Radvansky, G. A. (in press).  Mental map organization. Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory and Cognition.

 
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