TY  - JOUR
A1  - Seger, Benedikt T.
A1  - Wannagat, Wienke
A1  - Nieding, Gerhild
T1  - Children’s surface, textbase, and situation model representations of written and illustrated written narrative text
JF  - Reading and Writing
N2  - According to the tripartite model of text representation (van Dijk & Kintsch, 1983), readers form representations of the text surface and textbase, and construct a situation model. In this study, an experiment was conducted to investigate whether these levels of representation would be affected by adding illustrations to narrative text and whether the order of text and illustrations would make a difference. Students aged between 7 and 13 years (N = 146) read 12 narrative texts, 4 of them with illustrations presented before their corresponding sentences, 4 with illustrations presented after, and 4 without any illustration. A sentence recognition task was used to assess the accuracy for text surface, textbase, and situation model. For the text surface and situation model, neither the presence of illustrations nor the order of text and illustrations influenced accuracy. However, the textbase was negatively affected by illustrations when they followed their corresponding sentences. We suggest that illustrations can initiate model inspection after situation model construction (Schnotz, 2014), a process that can make substantial changes to the textbase representation.
KW  - piicture comprehension
KW  - text comprehension
KW  - narrative text
KW  - children
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-269813
SN  - 1573-0905
VL  - 34
IS  - 6
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Hauf, Juliane E. K.
A1  - Nieding, Gerhild
A1  - Seger, Benedikt T.
T1  - Correction to: The development of dynamic perceptual simulations during sentence comprehension
T2  - Cognitive Processing
N2  - No abstract available.
KW  - Erratum
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-352611
N1  - The original article can be found online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-020-00959-7
VL  - 22
IS  - 4
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hauf, Juliane E. K.
A1  - Nieding, Gerhild
A1  - Seger, Benedikt T.
T1  - The development of dynamic perceptual simulations during sentence comprehension
JF  - Cognitive Processing
N2  - Based on an embodied account of language comprehension, this study investigated the dynamic characteristics of children and adults’ perceptual simulations during sentence comprehension, using a novel paradigm to assess the perceptual simulation of objects moving up and down a vertical axis. The participants comprised adults (N = 40) and 6-, 8-, and 10-year-old children (N = 116). After listening in experimental trials to sentences implying that objects moved upward or downward, the participants were shown pictures and had to decide as quickly as possible whether the objects depicted had been mentioned in the sentences. The target pictures moved either up or down and then stopped in the middle of the screen. All age groups’ reaction times were found to be shorter when the objects moved in the directions that the sentences implied. Age exerted no developmental effect on reaction times. The findings suggest that dynamic perceptual simulations are fundamental to language comprehension in text recipients aged 6 and older.
KW  - embodied cognition
KW  - sentence comprehension
KW  - dynamic perceptual simulation;
KW  - children
KW  - adults
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-283665
VL  - 21
IS  - 2
ER  -