Cognitive Processes in Comprehension

First published in 1978. Cognitive Processes in Comprehension is a look at what goes on in the mind of the listener or reader when he hears a sentence during a conversation or reads a passage in a book. For most adults, comprehension is rapid, automatic, and effortless. But, despite its apparent simplicity, comprehension includes a myriad of subprocesses, each of which by itself constitutes a formidable computational task.

List of contents

PART I: KNOWLEDGE SOURCES IN COMPREHENSION 1. Semantic Macro-Structures and Knowledge Frames in Discourse Comprehension 2. On Comprehending Stories 3. A Framework for Understanding Discourse 4. From Words to Equations: Meaning and Representation in Algebra Word Problems PART II: PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANISMS IN COMPREHENSION 5. Reading Comprehension as Eyes See It 6. Discourse Comprehension and Sources of Individual Differences 7. Suppositions and the Analysis of Conditional Sentences 8. Comprehending Reading at Work PART III: MODELING LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION 9. Problems of Reference in Text Comprehension 10. A Production System Model of Language Processing 11. Structure and Process in Discourse Production and Comprehension

About the author

Marcel A Just (Edited by), Patricia A Carpenter (Edited by), both Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

Summary

First published in 1978. Cognitive Processes in Comprehension is a look at what goes on in the mind of the listener or reader when he hears a sentence during a conversation or reads a passage in a book. For most adults, comprehension is rapid, automatic, and effortless. But, despite its apparent simplicity, comprehension includes a myriad of subprocesses, each of which by itself constitutes a formidable computational task.

Product details

• Assisted by: Patricia A. Carpenter (Editor), Carpenter Patricia A. (Editor), Marcel A. Just (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1978
• EAN: 9780898591279
• ISBN: 978-0-89859-127-9
• No. of pages: 348
• Weight: 640 g
• Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology