Inferences during Reading

1. Comprehending implicit meanings in text without making inferences Charles A. Perfetti and Joseph Z. Stafura; 2. Passive activation and instantiation of inferences during reading Anne E. Cook and Edward J. O'Brien; 3. Cognitive theories in discourse-processing research Gail McKoon and Roger Ratcliff; 4. Validation of text and discourse inferences - and explicit content Murray Singer; 5. Inference generation in text comprehension: automatic and strategic processes in the construction of a mental representation Paul van den Broek, Katinka Beker and Marja Oudega; 6. Emotion inferences during reading: going beyond the tip of the iceberg Pascal Gygax and Christelle Gillioz; 7. Inference processing in children: the contributions of depth and breadth of vocabulary knowledge Jane Oakhill, Kate Cain and Diana McCarthy; 8. A general inference skill Panayiota Kendeou; 9. Toward an embodied approach to inferences in comprehension: the case of action language Manuel de Vega; 10. The cognitive and neural correlates of individual differences in inferential processes Chantel S. Prat and Brianna L. Yamasaki; 11. Inferences during text comprehension: what neuroscience can (or cannot) contribute Evelyn C. Ferstl; 12. Causal inferences and world knowledge Leo Noordman, Wietske Vonk, Reinier Cozijn and Stefan Frank; 13. Constructing inferences in naturalistic reading contexts Arthur C. Graesser, Haiying Li and Shi Feng; 14. Inference generation during online study and multimedia learning Kirsten R. Butcher and Sarah Davies; 15. What about expository text? Robert F. Lorch, Jr; 16. The role of inferences in narrative experiences Richard J. Gerrig and William G. Wenzel; 17. Interpretive inferences in literature Susan R. Goldman, Kathryn S. McCarthy and Candice Burkett.