This paper presents an overview of the activation of background knowledge during text comprehension. We first review the cognitive processes involved in the activation of inferences during text comprehension, stressing the interaction between text and reader in the construction of situation models. Second, we review evidence for embodied theories of cognition and discuss how this new framework can inform our understanding of the nature and role of background knowledge. We then review the neuropsychological data on the activation of background knowledge during text comprehension. Finally, the paper presents existing and future challenges in researching the role of background knowledge both at a conceptual and a methodological level.
Marmolejo-Ramos, Fernando, Thomas Workman, Clint Walker, Don Lenihan, Sarah Moulds, Juan C. Correa, Anca M. Hanea & Belona Sonna
2022. AI-powered narrative building for facilitating public participation and engagement. Discover Artificial Intelligence 2:1
Gygax, Pascal, Sayaka Sato, Anton Öttl & Ute Gabriel
2021. The masculine form in grammatically gendered languages and its multiple interpretations: a challenge for our cognitive system. Language Sciences 83 ► pp. 101328 ff.
Khatin-Zadeh, Omid, Zahra Eskandari & Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos
2021. Causal pattern test and cloze test: a study of L2 learners using distributed models of conceptual representation. Discover Psychology 1:1
Gabriel, Ute, Dawn M. Behne & Pascal M. Gygax
2017. Speech vs. reading comprehension: an explorative study of gender representations in Norwegian. Journal of Cognitive Psychology 29:7 ► pp. 795 ff.
Vélez, Jorge Iván & Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos
2016. Los Secretos de Cien Años de Soledad: Una Aproximación Estilométrica para la Investigación en Psicolingüística. Revista Colombiana de Psicología 25:2
Gouldthorp, Bethanie
2015. Hemispheric differences in the processing of contextual information during language comprehension. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition 20:3 ► pp. 348 ff.
Marmolejo-Ramos, Fernando, Julia Miller & Chad Habel
2014. The influence of question type, text availability, answer confidence and language background on student comprehension of an expository text. Higher Education Research & Development 33:4 ► pp. 712 ff.
Sanders-Jackson, Ashley
2014. Rated Measures of Narrative Structure for Written Smoking-Cessation Texts. Health Communication 29:10 ► pp. 1009 ff.
Williams, Jazz C.
2014. Recent official policy and concepts of reading comprehension and inference: the case of England's primary curriculum. Literacy 48:2 ► pp. 95 ff.
GYGAX, PASCAL, ORIANE SARRASIN, ARIK LÉVY, SAYAKA SATO & UTE GABRIEL
2013. La représentation mentale du genre pendant la lecture: état actuel de la recherche francophone en psycholinguistique. Journal of French Language Studies 23:2 ► pp. 243 ff.
Jindráček, V., J. Škoda & P. Doulík
2013. Dětské čtenářství v didaktických souvislostech a perspektivy neurovědních poznatků. Pedagogická orientace 23:5 ► pp. 691 ff.
Marmolejo-Ramos, Fernando, María Rosa Elosúa, Yuki Yamada, Nicholas Francis Hamm, Kimihiro Noguchi & Alessio Avenanti
2013. Appraisal of Space Words and Allocation of Emotion Words in Bodily Space. PLoS ONE 8:12 ► pp. e81688 ff.
Henkel, Linda A.
2012. Seeing photos makes us read between the lines: The influence of photos on memory for inferences. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 65:4 ► pp. 773 ff.
Gygax, Pascal
2010. L’inférence émotionnelle durant la lecture et sa composante comportementale. L’Année psychologique Vol. 110:2 ► pp. 253 ff.
2010. Relevance of Health Warnings on Cigarette Packs: A Psycholinguistic Investigation. Health Communication 25:5 ► pp. 397 ff.
Mark Gygax, Pascal
2010. L’inférence émotionnelle durant la lecture et sa composante comportementale. L’Année psychologique 110:02 ► pp. 253 ff.
Mishra, Ramesh Kumar & Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos
2010. On the mental representations originating during the interaction between language and vision. Cognitive Processing 11:4 ► pp. 295 ff.
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