Coherence Threshold and the Continuity of Processing: The RI-Val Model of Comprehension

Common to all models of reading comprehension is the assumption that a reader's level of comprehension is heavily influenced by their standards of coherence (van den Broek, Risden, & Husbye-Hartman, 1995 ). Our discussion focuses on a subcomponent of the readers' standards of coherence...

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Published inDiscourse processes Vol. 53; no. 5-6; pp. 326 - 338
Main Authors O'Brien, Edward J., Cook, Anne E.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Philadelphia Routledge 03.07.2016
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Academic Standards
Cognitive models
Cognitive Processes
Coherence
Discourse analysis
Learning Processes
Readability
Readability Formulas
Reading Ability
Reading Comprehension
Reliability
Rhetoric
Thresholds
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Summary:Common to all models of reading comprehension is the assumption that a reader's level of comprehension is heavily influenced by their standards of coherence (van den Broek, Risden, & Husbye-Hartman, 1995 ). Our discussion focuses on a subcomponent of the readers' standards of coherence: the coherence threshold. We situate this discussion within our RI-Val model of comprehension in which we assume that three prominent processes-activation, integration, and validation-all run to completion regardless of whether readers have reached their coherence threshold. This continuity assumption provides the basis for predictions about the timing of processing effects both before and after the reader has reached the coherence threshold. We suggest that the coherence threshold assumption may have implications for several current areas of discourse processing research.
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ISSN:0163-853X
1532-6950
DOI:10.1080/0163853X.2015.1123341