The Role of Background Knowledge in Sentence and Discourse Processing

• The Role of Background Knowledge in Sentence and Discourse Processing .
• Metaphors .
• "Mistakes" .
• Memory for Text .
• Motivation .
• Thesis Topic: Comprehension .
• Behavioral Data .
• Overview .
• Semantic Interpretation .
• How Does the Model Work? .
• Model in the Absence of Context Priming .
• Context Priming .
• Model With Context Priming .
• Distributed Meaning Assumption .
• Context Finding With Distributed Meanings .
• Summary of the Model .
• Overview .
• Metaphor-related Phenomena .
• Metaphor Position Effects .
• Effects of Metaphoric Truth .
• Types of Metaphors .
• What Are Semantic Illusions? .
• Semantic Illusion Datasets .
• Good vs. Bad Illusions .
• Gist Task .
• Modeling Semantic Illusions .
• Memory for Text .
• Text Memory Datasets .
• Interferences Among Related Stories .
• Modeling Script Effects .
• Elaborations .
• Difficulties With Modeling Script Effects .
• Lexical Ambiguity Resolution .
• Lexical Ambiguity Datasets .
• Lexical Ambiguity: An Eye Movement Study (Duffy et al., 1988) .
• Gaze Durations on Homophones .
• Gaze Duration on Homophones .
• Time Spent on Disambiguating Region .
• Fitting the Data .
• Overview .
• Computational Constraints .
• Syntactic Ambiguity As a Computational Constraint .
• Summary .
• Empirical Constraints .
• Empirical Constraints (contd.) .
• Empirical Constraints (contd.) .
• Model Validation .
• Work Plan .