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Not all narrative shifts function equally.

S S Rich1, H A Taylor

  • 1Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas, USA.

Memory & Cognition
|December 29, 2000
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Characters are key to understanding narratives. This study shows characters, along with time and location, help readers index events for better text comprehension and memory.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Narrative Comprehension

Background:

  • Readers process narratives by tracking events and associated information.
  • The role of fundamental event components in structuring narrative processing is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how basic event components (character, time, location) function as event indexes during text comprehension.
  • To examine the influence of event indexing on narrative coherence, cohesion, and on-line processing.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments were conducted to assess event indexing.
  • Methods included measuring perceived coherence, perceived cohesion, and on-line processing during narrative comprehension.

Main Results:

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  • Characters were identified as the most probable event indexes.
  • Similar indexing patterns were observed across all experiments.
  • Differences in indexing emerged based on the level of text comprehension assessed (coherence, cohesion, on-line processing).

Conclusions:

  • Characters play a crucial role in event indexing within narrative comprehension.
  • The findings highlight the importance of basic event components in structuring how readers process and remember narratives.
  • Event indexing mechanisms vary depending on the specific aspect of text comprehension being examined.