Christian C. Steciuch, Keith K. Millis, Ryan D. Kopatich
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Abstract
ABSTRACT A large body of research has outlined how mental models are formed by comprehending texts, yet relatively less work has been conducted in the field of comprehending artworks. Trans-symbolic comprehension (TSC) processes have been theorized to partially account for how mental models are formed across media. The current study tested whether participants use these processes similarly across reading stories and viewing paintings. The current study also tested whether the frequencies of TSC processes predict the aesthetic responses of understanding, interest, and pleasure. Participants typed out their thoughts while viewing paintings and reading texts. The think-aloud protocols were then parsed and coded for TSC processes. Results indicated similarities in TSC processes across both texts and paintings; however, the association between the TSC processes and aesthetic responses were greater for the texts than for the paintings. Overall, the results provide support for the TSC framework.
期刊介绍:
Discourse Processes is a multidisciplinary journal providing a forum for cross-fertilization of ideas from diverse disciplines sharing a common interest in discourse--prose comprehension and recall, dialogue analysis, text grammar construction, computer simulation of natural language, cross-cultural comparisons of communicative competence, or related topics. The problems posed by multisentence contexts and the methods required to investigate them, although not always unique to discourse, are sufficiently distinct so as to require an organized mode of scientific interaction made possible through the journal.