Updating Situation Models From Descriptive Texts: A Test of the Situational Operator Model

• Published in: Discourse processes Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 201 - 236
• Main Authors: Millis, Keith K., King, Anne, Kim, Hyun-Jeong J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc 01.01.2000

A model of situation model construction suitable for descriptive text, called the Situational Operator Model, was tested in 2 experiments. It assumes that situation models for descriptions are built incrementally by using basic operations that are triggered by text content. In both experiments, part...