Inference Accessing Episodic Memory 

Inference Accessing Semantic Memory 

- Determine online reading activation 
- Accesses episodic and semantic Memory 


Claremont Graduate University

When reading readers generate specific referential and causal inferences

Readers generate specific inferences

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

Reading Comprehension + Cognitive Psychology

Inference Functions

Helps understand how readers maintain coherence to a text. When causal inference is missing, readers have to slow down to relate to previous text or their prior knowledge to maintain coherence. 

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