Retrieval Structure Construction During Reading: Experimentation and Simulation
Cédrick Bellissens, Guy Denhière · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2004
The aim of this study was to investigate the construction of a retrieval structure during reading, according to the hypothesis that text macrostructure is used in Long-term working memory (Ericsson & Kintsch, 1995) to maintain encoded information in an accessible format.We first designed an experiment for testing the hypothesis that retrieval structure is a macrostructure of the text.Then, we conceived and run a model inspired by CI-LSA Framework (Kintsch, Patel & Ericsson, 1999) in which a generalization process create macropropositions.Results are that simulation data were found to be highly correlated with participants' data.