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Narrative comprehension through analogy: A study in cognitive modeling and narrative clustering
The student, Sean Wilner, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2019-06-27 at 16:29.
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Socially-Aware Machine Learning: Towards Leveraging the Relationship between Narrative Comprehension and Mentalizing
Narratives are the fundamental means by which people organize, understand, and explain the social world. Research suggests that exposure to narratives improves mentalizing, referring to the capacity to forecast and reason about others' mental states. Simultaneously, enhanced mentalizing abilities …
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The Effectiveness of Explicit Storybook Comprehension Instruction for Improving Preschool Children’s Narrative Comprehension Skills
… book reading to facilitate children’s story comprehension abilities. To close this gap, the present study examined the effectiveness of implementing explicit storybook comprehension instruction in a single-case study with seven preschool-age participants. Using a combined repeated acquisition …
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A multidimensional investigation of the validity of a new large-scale reading assessment instrument: The reading portion of the Illinois Goal Assessment Program
… indicate that the tests load on two factors, a comprehension factor and a factor which contrasts reading rate and accuracy with narrative comprehension. Two elements of the IGAP failed to load on either factor: the literacy survey and the reading strategies measures.
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Emerging Readers and Inferential Comprehension with Wordless Narrative Picturebooks: An intervention study
… reading acquisition process, through listening comprehension (e.g., Kendeou et al., 2009). Despite being able to generate inferences, such as cause and effect, as early as four years old (Lynch and van den Broek, 2007) inference generation is a skill not explicitly taught to many emergent …
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Production and Comprehension of Mental State Verbs in Narratives by School-Aged Children with Autism: A Pilot Study
… state verb (MSV) use and understanding across narrative generation, retell, and comprehension in a single sample of school-age autistic children. Our research question was: how do school-aged children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) generate, retell, and understand MSVs? Participants …
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Adult Age Differences in Processing Narrative Text: Managing Character Representations
Understanding a narrative situation depends on keeping track of multiple characters that enter and exit dynamically as the plot unfolds. Because there has been no systematic investigation of age differences in the ability to manage multiple characters during narrative comprehension, this project …
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The docu-comedy : towards a new genre in the expression of social commentary through comic performance, using documentary film techniques and reality television discourse
… discretion of the director to do otherwise when narrative comprehension is at risk. In this way humor exists in a way not often exploited on television. As humor serves as a forum to bring to the attention of society activities, beliefs, morals, etc., at the same time challenging their validity …
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Evaluating interactive documentaries : audience, impact and innovation in public interest media
… into outcomes like sustained attention, greater narrative comprehension, enhanced learning, empathy or civic engagement - never mind larger societal impacts like improved public discourse, behavior change or policy change. The shifting definitions and measures of complex, multi-dimensional …
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The Influence of Text on Coherence of Story Retells, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Acquisition, and Eye Gaze: A Computer-Based Story Telling Task with Eye Tracking
… of orthography on vocabulary acquisition and narrative comprehension in young readers (children in 2<sup>nd </sup>and 3<sup>rd</sup> grade, ages 6-9) during a computer-based storytelling task. We aimed to determine if having text available during storytelling benefits readers as predicted by …
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Language-Mediated Event Representations
When understanding narrative events we must keep track of a number of (often) changing dimensions, such as who is the focus of the narrative, what they are doing, and where they are doing it; amongst which, this ‘where’ dimension is thought to be crucial in forming even the simplest representation …
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Text-Picture Integration during Inferential Processing by L1 and L2 English and Chinese Speakers: Individual Differences and Script Effects
… processing is critical to understanding verbal narratives. In recent years, empirical studies have offered evidence that inference generation is also crucial to visual narrative comprehension. Given the similarities between verbal and visual narratives, it is reasonable to argue that readers …
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The influence of the temporal characteristics of events on children's pronoun resolution
… the same influence of aspectual morphemes in narrative contexts as shown by adults in previous research. A third goal was to examine whether literature written for children might provide a potential causal explanation (environmental exposure) for the pattern of development observed in the …