How Do Readers Deal with Flashbacks in Narratives?
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The study addresses the question of how readers mentally represent narratives containing flashbacks. Do they insert the flashback information at the chronologically appropriate location into their representation or do they encode it as background information about the situation described immediately before? To investigate the two hypotheses three experiments were conducted. Experiment 1 and 2 examine the reading times for flashback sentences during narrative processing and Experiment 3 the structure of the representations that readers construct for narratives containing flashbacks. The results support the chronological hypothesis.
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