The Role of Autobiographical Memories in Story Comprehension

Some researchers indicated that situation models resemble autobiographical memory (AbM). For example, Zwaan & Radvansky (1998) pointed “The dimensions of time, space, and protagonist are also featured in accounts of autobiographical memory of directly experienced events” by quoted Wagenaar (1986). Also, Radvansky, Copeland & Zwaan (2005) investigated AbM using memories of fictional autobiographic novel as vicarious AbM. So, there are many evidences of the familiar relationship of situation models and AbM. Most studies, however, have focused on AbM rather than situation models. In this study, we focused situation model rather than AbM, and then research the role of AbM in constructing situation models exploratory and empirically.