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Mental Model Building

Mental Model Building is a cognitive construct in narrative comprehension that refers to the singular process of constructing a coherent internal representation of a narrative’s events, characters, and causal relations to facilitate understanding and inference.

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390

<b>Mental models</b> : Towards a cognitive science of language, inference, and consciousness. By Philip N. Johnson-Laird (Cognitive science series, 6.) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983. Pp. 528. $25.00.

Marilyn Ford · Language · 1985 · 4.5K citations

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Eliciting self-explanations improves understanding,

Cognitive Science · 1994 · 2.1K citations

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Some observations on mental models

Donald A. Norman · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1983 · 1.5K citations

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On looking into the black box: Prospects and limits in the search for mental models.

William B. Rouse, Nancy M. Morris · Psychological Bulletin · 1986 · 1.2K citations

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Building Process Theory with Narrative: from Description to Explanation

Brian T. Pentland · Academy of Management Review · 1999 · 1.1K citations

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Authors

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  1. PN
    P. N. Johnson‐Laird

    Princeton University, United States

    7 publications · 541 citations

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  2. WS
    Wolfgang Schnotz

    University of Koblenz and Landau, Germany

    6 publications · 380 citations

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  3. RA
    Rolf A. Zwaan

    Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

    6 publications · 2.3K citations

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  4. JS
    Jonathan St. B. T. Evans

    University of Plymouth, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 421 citations

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  5. PB
    Pierre Barrouillet

    University of Geneva, Switzerland

    4 publications · 302 citations

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Institutions

424

  1. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    8 h-index

    22 publications

    2.2K citations

  2. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    7 h-index

    9 publications

    982 citations

  3. Radboud University Nijmegen

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    6 h-index

    14 publications

    924 citations

  4. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    6 h-index

    11 publications

    1K citations

  5. University of Memphis

    Memphis, United States

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    1.4K citations

  6. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    5 h-index

    18 publications

    1.6K citations

  7. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    174 citations

  8. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    1.6K citations

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  2. System Dynamics Review

    11 publications · 1.5K citations

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  3. Cognitive Science

    6 publications · 2.9K citations

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  4. Memory & Cognition

    4 publications · 322 citations

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  5. Journal of Educational Psychology

    4 publications · 622 citations

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