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Temporal order relations in language comprehension.

Elke van der Meer1, Reinhard Beyer, Bertram Heinze

  • 1Department of Psychology, Humboldt University at Berlin, Germany. vdMeer@rz.huberlin.de

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition
|July 12, 2002
PubMed
Summary

Readers utilize temporal information from their knowledge to build mental models during sentence comprehension. This internal timeline reflects the chronological distance between everyday events, influencing language understanding.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Human Memory

Background:

  • Understanding how people process information over time is crucial for language comprehension.
  • General event knowledge plays a significant role in constructing mental representations of events.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the influence of temporal orientation and chronological distance on language comprehension.
  • To examine how readers utilize temporal information embedded within their knowledge base.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Relation-recognition paradigm to assess event comprehension facilitation/disruption.
  • Experiments 2 & 3: Sentence-probe-recognition paradigm manipulating temporal orientation, stimulus onset asynchrony, and chronological distance.

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Main Results:

  • Readers actively construct situation models during sentence comprehension.
  • Temporal information from general event knowledge significantly impacts comprehension.
  • The internal temporal dimension is directional and correlates with chronological event distances.

Conclusions:

  • Temporal orientation and distance are key factors in language processing.
  • Readers integrate temporal knowledge to form coherent situation models.
  • The study highlights the dynamic and directional nature of temporal representations in cognition.