Goal coordination in narrative comprehension

Mental models in narrative comprehension.

Readers of stories construct mental models of the situation and characters described. They infer causal connections relating characters' actions to their goals. They also focus attention on characters' movements, thereby activating nearby parts of the mental model. This activation is revealed in readers' faster answering of questions about such parts, with less facilitation the greater their di...

Plan Understanding , Narrative Comprehension

This paper proposes that a comprehensive theory of stories must include components that deal with: (a) plan understanding, (b) narrative comprehension, and (c) the unique structural and affective aspects of the subclass of narratives that are stories.

Time in Narrative Comprehension: a Cognitive Perspective

Probabilistic Goal Recognition in Interactive Narrative Environments

Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in interactive narrative-centered virtual environments for education, training, and entertainment. Narrative environments dynamically craft engaging story-based experiences for users, who are themselves active participants in unfolding stories. A key challenge posed by interactive narrative is recognizing users’ goals so that narrative planners can...

Narrative comprehension for functional survival spatial relations