Situation model updating in young and older adults
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Situation model updating in young and older adults: Global versus incremental mechanisms.
Readers construct mental models of situations described by text. Activity in narrative text is dynamic, so readers must frequently update their situation models when dimensions of the situation change. Updating can be incremental, such that a change leads to updating just the dimension that changed, or global, such that the entire model is updated. Here, we asked whether older and young adults ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Behavioral Development
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0165-0254,1464-0651
DOI: 10.1177/0165025419874125