Comprehending narratives containing flashbacks: Evidence for temporally organized representations

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)1031-1044
FachzeitschriftJournal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition
Jahrgang32
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2006
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Abstract

This study investigated the representations that readers construct for narratives describing a sequence of events. Participants read narratives describing 4 successive events in chronological order (Event 1, Event 2, Event 3, Event 4 [E1, E2, E3, E4] Experiment 1) or in nonchronological order with E1 being mentioned in a flashback (E2, E3, E1, E4; Experiments 2–4). The information about the duration of E2 was manipulated, and the mental accessibility of E1 was tested at the end of a passage. All 4 experiments showed that E1 was less accessible if the text implied that it occurred a relatively long time ago in the described world compared with when it occurred a shorter time ago. This result suggests that readers construct a temporally organized representation even if the text structure does not suggest such an organization.

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Comprehending narratives containing flashbacks: Evidence for temporally organized representations. / Claus, Berry; Kelter, Stephanie.
in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, Jahrgang 32, 2006, S. 1031-1044.

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