- Text input in current cycle
- Residual information from the previous cycle
- Current episodic representation
- Prior knowledge

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Model for visualizing and understanding how readers ingest and comprehend a text. In the model, reading is envisioned as a cyclical process by which a reader engages with ideas in the text. Each cycle represents a new sentence or proposition. During a cycle concepts fluctuate into activation when they obtain the attention of the reader. Concepts that are activated throughout the cycles that occur while reading result in an episodic memory representation of the text or situation model. 


Landscape Model

Tzeng, Y., Van Den Broek, P., Kendeou, P., & Lee, C. (2005). The computational implementation of the landscape model: Modeling inferential processes and memory representations of text comprehension. Behavior Research Methods 37(2), 277-286. 


The computational implementation of the landscape model: Modeling inferential processes and memory representations of text comprehension

Landscape Model References

Sources of Activations

A mental understanding of the concepts and their relationships within a text that is developed by the reader. This is also called a situation model.


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