Linderholm Tracy, Gernsbacher Morton Ann, van den Broek Paul, Neninde Lana, Robertson Rachel R W, Sundermier Brian
Department of Educational Psychology University of Florida.
Department of Psychology University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Discourse Process. 2004 Jan;37(1):67-78. doi: 10.1207/s15326950dp3701_4.
The objective of this study was to determine how readers process narrative texts when the main character has multiple, and changing, goals. Readers must keep track of such goals to understand the causal relations between text events, an important process for comprehension. The structure building framework theory of reading proposes that readers maintain the most relevant goal in focus using the mechanism of suppression. The results of this study confirm that readers maintain the activation of goal information that is rementioned in a text and suppress previous goal information when a new goal is introduced. Thus, in an attempt to understand the causal relations between events in a text, readers keep track of multiple story character goals by using suppression.
本研究的目的是确定当主角有多个不断变化的目标时,读者如何处理叙事文本。读者必须追踪这些目标,以理解文本事件之间的因果关系,这是理解的一个重要过程。阅读的结构构建框架理论提出,读者通过抑制机制将最相关的目标保持在焦点上。本研究结果证实,读者会保持文本中再次提及的目标信息的激活状态,并在引入新目标时抑制先前的目标信息。因此,为了理解文本中事件之间的因果关系,读者通过使用抑制来追踪多个故事角色的目标。