- Readers usually construct one mental representation, which depends on readers’ background knowledge, reading goals, motivation, and texts’ properties

Mental Representation and Background Knowledge

Mental representation is the construction of the meaning of the text rather than the exact, surface-level text itself

Claremont Graduate University

To understand the product in reading comprehension, we need to understand mental representation, coherence, and nodes

Generation 1: Product of Reading 

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

Reading Comprehension + Cognitive Psychology

- understanding what readers remember 
- what factors impact their memory 


Examples of Product of reading

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

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