Isabelle Tapiero 
Situation Models and Levels of Coherence [EPUB ebook] 
Toward a Definition of Comprehension

The mental representation of what one reads is called a ‘situation model’ or a ‘mental model.’ The process of reading causes an interaction of the new knowledge with what is already known. Though a number of theories and models have been proposed to describe this interaction, Tapiero proposes a new model that assumes a variety of storage areas to p