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The Effects of Causal Connections on Memory of Discourse

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Authors

Suh Kim, Soyoung

Issue Date
2001
Publisher
Institute for Cognitive Science, Seoul National University
Citation
Journal of cognitive science, Vol.2 No.2, pp. 195-209
Abstract
Studies about understanding and remembering of a discourse have
reported that causal relations are very important in creating a coherent
representation of a discourse. According to the studies, readers interpret
the statements of a discourse based on the causal relations between the
events and states described in the statements (Schank, 1975; Trabasso,
Secco, & van den Broek, 1984, Fletcher & Bloom, 1989; van den Broek &
Lorch, 1993).
Specifically, Trabasso and his colleagues proposed a model in which
the representation of a discourse is expressed in terms of a network of
causal relations. (Trabasso, Secco, & van den Broek, 1984; Trabasso &
Sperry, 1985; Trabasso, van den Broek, & Suh, 1989). According to their
Causal Network Model, people identify causal relations between the
events and states described in the sentences and integrate the sentences
based on the causal relations. Thus, the representation that is created after
reading a discourse forms a network where the nodes refer to the sentences
and the links between the nodes refer to the causal relations between the
sentences( c.f. Trabasso, van den Broek & Suh, 1989).
ISSN
1598-2327
Language
English
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/70707
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