Developmental Spans in Event Comprehension and Representation: Bridging Fictional and Actual Events

by van den Broek; Paul

• ISBN13: 9780805817690
• ISBN10: 0805817697
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-02-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume, which addresses issues of discourse and event representation and comprehension, will be of interest to developmental and cognitive psychologists, psycholinguists, and educators.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Event Representations Then, Now, and Next	p. 1
References	p. 24
	p. 27
Implicit Processes in the Development of Causal Knowledge: a Connectionist Model of the Use of Humean Cues	p. 29
Acknowledgments	p. 47
Development of Sensitivity to Spatial and Temporal Information	p. 51
Conclusion	p. 73
Conclusion	p. 75
Conclusion	p. 76
Revealing the Representation: Evidence From Children's Reports of Events	p. 79
Conclusion	p. 102
Conclusion	p. 108
Event Understanding In Early Childhood	p. 109
Acknowledgments	p. 136
References	p. 136
Saying is Revealing: Verbal Expression of Event Memory in the Transition from Infancy to Early Childhood	p. 139
Acknowledgments	p. 165
Acknowledgments	p. 166
Narrating and Representing Experience: Preschoolers' Developing Autobiographical Accounts	p. 169
References	p. 195
Acknowledgment	p. 195
Children's Understanding, Evaluation, and Memory for Emotional Events	p. 199
Children's Understanding, Evaluation, and Memory for Emotional Events	p. 227
References	p. 231
Narrating, Representing, and Remembering Event Sequences	p. 237
Children's Memory for Televised Events	p. 271
References	p. 286
Event Understanding In Children And Adults	p. 293
Comprehending Characters' Emotions: the Role of Event Categories and Causal Connectivity	p. 295
Acknowledgments	p. 317
Discovering the Cement of the Universe: the Development of Event Comprehension from Childhood to Adulthood	p. 321
ACKNOWLEGMENTS	p. 340
Understanding the Causal Structure of Narrative Events	p. 343
Acknowledgments	p. 358
References	p. 358
a """"Global-Coherence"""" View of Event Comprehension: Inferential Processing as Question Answering	p. 361
References	p. 383
Building the Bridges: The Development of Event Comprehension and Representation	p. 385
References	p. 408
Author Index	p. 409
Subject Index	p. 421
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