Visuo-Spatial Working Memory during Strategic Text Comprehension

IRRAZABAL, N., BURIN, D. , & RAMENZONI, V.

Minneapolis, MN, EEUU

Encuentro; Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse; 2006

Society for Text and Discourse

P1-11 Visuo-Spatial Working Memory during Strategic Text ComprehensionNatalia Irrazabal & Débora Burin (Universidad de Buenos Aires), & Verónica C. Ramenzoni(University of Cincinnati)Two experiments explored the mental models derived from strategic comprehension of narrative texts involving spatial changes. We compared the effects of selective interferences (verbal, spatial and visual) on spatial inferences. In both experiments, reading times for the spatial and visual interference conditions were significantly longer than for the No interference condition. These results show that visuo-spatial working memory resources are required for the reader tobuild an image of the story.