Comprehension of Multidimensional Narratives

多维叙事的理解

• 批准号: 6759763
• 负责人: WILLIAM H LEVINE
• 金额: $ 6.93万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT FAYETTEVILLE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-05-01 至 2006-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6759763
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; comprehension; goal oriented behavior; human subject; interactive multimedia; language; psychomotor reaction time; reading; symbolism; university student; visual tracking

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A primary goal of research in reading comprehension is to specify the cognitive processes involved in the construction of the mental representation of a text, as well as the nature of that representation. This serves the larger goal of developing well-specified general theories of language processing, which are essential for the design of educational programs and interventions, and potentially contribute to the effective use of information technology by allowing improvements in the readability of text. The specific aim of the proposed research is to investigate comprehension of narratives in which multiple properties, or dimensions, such as time and character's goals, are manipulated. Much recent research aimed at narrative comprehension has focused on the processing of narratives in which only one dimension is manipulated, and research aimed at multidimensional narratives has typically used a correlational research strategy that leaves unanswered questions about how the multiple dimensions affect one another. In particular, the effect of time shifts of varying lengths on the representation of characters' pursuit of goals will be tested, to examine how these two dimensions interact. Processing of goal-related information will be measured via reading time and the speed and accuracy with which participants are able to identify goal-related words as having appeared in stories. Thus, the experiments will generate needed experimental data to further develop theories of narrative processing.

描述（由申请人提供）：阅读理解研究的主要目标是明确文本心理表征构建中涉及的认知过程以及该表征的本质。这服务于发展明确的语言处理一般理论的更大目标，这对于教育计划和干预措施的设计至关重要，并且通过提高文本的可读性可能有助于信息技术的有效使用。 拟议研究的具体目的是调查对叙事的理解，其中多个属性或维度（例如时间和角色的目标）受到操纵。最近许多针对叙事理解的研究都集中在仅操纵一个维度的叙事处理上，而针对多维叙事的研究通常使用一种相关研究策略，该策略留下了关于多个维度如何相互影响的未解答的问题。特别是，将测试不同长度的时间转移对人物追求目标的表现的影响，以检查这两个维度如何相互作用。与目标相关的信息的处理将通过阅读时间以及参与者能够识别故事中出现的与目标相关的单词的速度和准确性来衡量。因此，实验将产生所需的实验数据，以进一步发展叙事处理理论。