Situation Models and Levels of Coherence: Toward a Definition of Comprehension - Softcover

Tapiero, Isabelle

 
9781138004221: Situation Models and Levels of Coherence: Toward a Definition of Comprehension
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ISBN 10: 1138004227 ISBN 13: 9781138004221
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

The mental representation of what one reads is called a "situation model" or a "mental model." The process of reading causes an interaction of the new knowledge with what is already known. Though a number of theories and models have been proposed to describe this interaction, Tapiero proposes a new model that assumes a variety of storage areas to previous knowledge, and that the reader picks and chooses which of these models is most relevant to what is being read. These are called "levels of coherence." It’s a dynamic process as well, as the reader chooses and abandons the storage units of previous knowledge as he or she reads on. Situation Models and Levels of Coherence is of professional and scholarly interest to cognitive scientists who specialize in reading, knowledge representation, mental models, discourse analysis, and metaphor/symbol.

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Isabelle Tapiero

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138004227
ISBN 13 
9781138004221
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
252

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