This study was designed to evaluate the memory representations that support complex patterns of readers’ memorial judgments about text paraphrases. This issue was examined with reference to the pha...

Much of the research on discourse marking has focused on written text, thereby not considering signals available in the multimodal domain. It is therefore an open question to what extent comprehend...

This special double issue of Discourse Processes highlights work presented at the 34th annual meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse held in Chicago in July 2024. The conference provided an oc...

Psychology has changed a great deal during the more than 50 years I have been actively involved with it. In this essay, I try to trace these changes as I experienced them - a minor footnote to the ...

This study explores the relationships between sixth graders’ motivation for purposeful reading, their task understanding skills, and their comprehension of written texts. More specifically, we inve...

Aging affects language asymmetrically, with a greater impact on language production than on comprehension. In this study, 256 Italian-speaking healthy adults were divided into four age groups: 64 y...

The place-on-the-page (POP) effect, originally identified in the 1970s, refers to the phenomenon where readers can accurately recall the spatial location of information within a text. This study ex...

How accurately do readers of tweets understand the stance that tweet authors intended to express? We solicited from six authors their intended stance in their May 2022 tweets about “Roe v. Wade” af...