Cynthia Fisher

Situation models support referential prediction at 36 months of age

Adults generate causally-structured situation models during comprehension and use them to predict upcoming referents. In an eye-tracked comprehension task, 36-month-olds (N = 115) did the same, using story-provided information to predict which character could plausibly be mentioned next. In critical sentences such as “...

Prediction in language comprehension across the lifespan