Verification of Statements about Story Worlds That Deviate from Normal Conceptions of Time: What Is True aboutEinstein's Dreams?

摘要: Abstract College students read chapters from a novel written by Alan Lightman (Einstein's Dreams) and later provided verification judgments on the truth/falsity of test statements. Each chapter described different fictional village that incorporated assumptions about time deviate our normal TIME schema, e.g., citizens knowing exactly when world will end, flowing backward instead forward. These interesting insights life reality. In two experiments, we examined whether readers could accurately incorporate these in story worlds, as manifested for statements after comprehension. The included verbatim typical, atypical, inference atypical information perspective mundane reality meshes with schema. Verification ratings were collected 6-point scale Experiment 1, whereas 2 used signal–response technique which binary true/false decisions extracted at −.5, 1.5, 3.5, 5.5, 10.0 s. college measured literary expertise, reading skill, working memory span, time. Readers comparatively high expertise showed truth discrimination scores compatible aschema copy plus tagmodel, assumes are good detecting remembering information; this model predicts better (and faster) than typical contrast, fast low afilteringmodel; gloss over (or suppress) show advantages information. All groups had trouble inferentially propagating world, but slower more accurate their inferences. Aconstruction–integrationmodel explain interactions among time, typicality