Title |
Adults’ and children’s monitoring of story events in the service of comprehension
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Published in |
Memory & Cognition, May 2011
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DOI | 10.3758/s13421-011-0085-0 |
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Authors |
Catherine M. Bohn-Gettler, David N. Rapp, Paul van den Broek, Panayiota Kendeou, Mary Jane White |
Abstract |
When reading narratives, adults monitor shifts in time, space, characters, goals, and causation. Shifts in any of these dimensions affect both moment-by-moment reading and memory organization. The extant developmental literature suggests that middle school children have relatively sophisticated understandings of each of these dimensions but does not indicate whether they spontaneously monitor these dimensions during reading experiences. In four experiments, we examined the processing of event shifts by adults and children, using both an explicit verb-clustering task and a reading time task. The results indicate that middle school children's and adults' post-reading memory is organized using these dimensions but that children do not monitor dimensions during moment-by-moment reading in the same manner as adults. These differences were not a function of differentially difficult texts for children and adults, or between-group differences. The findings have implications for models of adult and child text processing and for understanding children's developing narrative comprehension. |
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Japan | 1 | 2% |
United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
Unknown | 64 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 22 | 33% |
Student > Master | 9 | 14% |
Researcher | 5 | 8% |
Professor > Associate Professor | 5 | 8% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 8% |
Other | 14 | 21% |
Unknown | 6 | 9% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Psychology | 27 | 41% |
Social Sciences | 10 | 15% |
Linguistics | 7 | 11% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 5% |
Neuroscience | 3 | 5% |
Other | 8 | 12% |
Unknown | 8 | 12% |