Sentence examples for discourse comprehension from inspiring English sources

In this event-related brain potential (ERP) study, we examined how semantic and referential aspects of anaphoric noun phrase resolution interact during discourse comprehension.

Mind wandering often interferes with reading comprehension, and prior neuroimaging studies of discourse comprehension and strategic reading comprehension have shown that there are at least two networks of brain regions that support strategic discourse comprehension: a domain-general control network and a network of regions supporting coherence-building comprehension processes.

Kintsch (1988) provided a useful framework as Construction-Integration (CI) model of text and discourse comprehension to investigate the influence of graph display and prior knowledge on graph comprehension.

This result provides an initial examination of the neural correlates of mind wandering during discourse comprehension and shows that the processes being engaged by the primary task need to be considered when studying mind wandering.

To understand these higher and lower-information processing, cognitive psychologists concentrate on the text and discourse comprehension (see Graesser et al. 1997) because of the convenience of presenting context stimuli to reach the rationale behind the comprehension processes.

The notion that top down effects may take time is consistent with research on establishing coherence in discourse comprehension at the local level (i.e., how the current narrative constituent fits in with the immediate context) versus the global level (i.e., how the current narrative constituent fits in with the larger story context).

Three items were excluded because of a factor loading <0.5: free discourse, verbal comprehension and repeating the word "baby".

This is also valid for the higher-order language functions including discourse planning and comprehension, understanding humor and metaphors, and generation and comprehension of emotional prosody mediated by the right hemisphere [78].

The findings explaining cognitive processes and its relation to subprocesses consist of Analyzing Non-Graphic Informathen (termterm was drawn from Yu et al. (2011), Translating Graphic and Non-Graphic Information into Written Discourse, Examining graph comprehension, Retrieving Personal Interpretation and Additional Reasoning, Reformulating Graph Description into EFL Written Discourse.

The local medical curriculum places increasing emphasis on communication skills training, and topics such as obtaining a psychosocial history, announcing bad news and adapting the physician's discourse to patients' comprehension levels are regularly addressed.

Obtained results point to the usefulness of learning metaphors to facilitate the comprehension of political discourse.