Coherence can be understood by examining interconnected nodes

Claremont Graduate University

A good mental representation has to be coherent, which has two distinctions 

Coherence in Product of Reading

Nodes in Product of Reading

Narrative Comprehension, Causality, and Coherence: Essays in Honor of Tom Trabasso. (1999). United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. 

Reading Comprehension + Cognitive Psychology

Coherence is a canonical schematic structure, which is the rule of narrative ordering that shapes readers’ mental representation of their narrative text 

1) Coherence– Canonical Schematic Structure

Coherence has to include the meaningful relationship among each elements 

2) Coherence– Meaningful Relationship

Causal Network Representation and Coherence 

Semantic relationship between text elements

Purpose of Connection between Nodes 

Having decision rules that capture the causal relationship between elements and represent the relationship as a network 

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