Manuel Carreiras (1993) Minimalist Misconceptions of Mental Models
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Psycoloquy 4(06): Minimalist Misconceptions of Mental Models
MINIMALIST MISCONCEPTIONS OF MENTAL MODELS
Commentary on Garnham and Glenberg & Mathews on Reading-Inference
Manuel Carreiras
Departamento de Psicologia Cognitiva
Universidad de La Laguna
Tenerife 38200 Spain
mac@iac.es
mac@iac.dnet.nasa.gov
Abstract
Both Glenberg & Mathew's (1992) and Garnham (1992) make
compelling contributions to the debate. Their arguments, however,
seem incoherent of incomplete in a number of ways.
Keywords
constructionism, inference, mental models, minimalism,
reading, text comprehension.
References
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- Garnham, A. (1992) Minimalism versus constructionism: A false dichotomy in theories of inference during reading. PSYCOLOQUY 3(63) reading-inference-1.1
- Glenberg, A. M. & Mathew, S. (1992) When minimalism is not enough: mental models in reading comprehension. PSYCOLOQUY 3(64) reading-inference-2.1
- Glenberg, A. M., Meyer, M. & Lindem, K. (1987) Mental models contribute to foregrounding during text comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 26, 69-83
- McKoon, G. & Ratcliff, R. (1992) Inference during reading. Psychological Review, 99, 440-466
- Sanford, A.J. (1992) Some mechanisms of coherence. Paper presented at the workshop on coherence in spontaneous discourse. Oregon
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