Readers' experiences of characters' goals and actions

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1322-1329

  Egidi, Giovanna ^a   Gerrig, Richard J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Character actions; Character goals; Goals; Inference; Narrative; Reading comprehension

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MOTIVATION; READING; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; GOALS; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 33750723484     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.32.6.1322     Document Type: Review

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