Readers’ Insensitivity to Tense Revealed: No Differences in Mental Simulation During Reading of Present and Past Tense Stories

While the importance of mental simulation during literary reading has long been recognized, we know little about the factors that determine when, what, and how much readers mentally simulate. Here we investigate the influence of a specific text characteristic, namely verb tense (present vs. past), o...

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Main Authors: Lynn S. Eekhof, Anita Eerland, Roel M. Willems
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of California Press 2018-05-01
Series:Collabra: Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.collabra.org/articles/121

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