But taken together they surely make a good case for it. After considering carefully what the minimalist position originally proposed, the mental-model reply, and the points we have raised here, we arrive at the conclusion that the constructivist approach has not been proved substantially wrong. Foregrounding of Trait Information during Text Comprehension. Paper presented at the First European Congress of Psychology, Amsterdam. Mental models as representations of text.
Pictures help to build mental models.
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