Austrian-American cognitive psychologist who developed the construction-integration model of text comprehension — the most influential computational account of how readers understand discourse.
Construction-Integration (CI) model: comprehension involves two phases — construction (building a propositional network from text) and integration (settling into a coherent interpretation through spreading activation). Text comprehension requires both linguistic knowledge and world knowledge. Foundations of text comprehension research.
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