A Step at a Time: Preliterate Children's Simulation of Narrative Movement during Story Comprehension

Autor/inn/en	Fecica, Agnieszka M.; O'Neill, Daniela K.
Titel	A Step at a Time: Preliterate Children's Simulation of Narrative Movement during Story Comprehension
Quelle	In: Cognition, 116 (2010) 3, S.368-381 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2010.05.014
Schlagwörter	Comprehension; Personality; Phonemic Awareness; Children; Expectation; Motion; Simulation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Verstehen; Verständnis; Personalität; Child; Kind; Kinder; Expectancy; Erwartung; Bewegungsablauf; Simulation program; Simulationsprogramm
Abstract	A growing body of work suggests that narrative comprehension involves the simulation of the described events and actions (e.g., Barsalou, 2008; Matlock, 2004). Preliterate children's ability to simulate a narrative character's movements is explored here in three studies. Children's simulations of a character's movements were found to be constrained by their expectation of the "duration" of the described activities (i.e., walking vs. driving) and by their expectations about the motivating influence of certain "psychological factors" (i.e., character being eager or not eager to get to a location). These findings reveal an ability among preliterate children to create impressively rich and dynamic mental representations of narrative events and address, with a novel methodology, an identified need for greater exploration of precursors to narrative comprehension. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10