Constructing Schemata While Reading Simple Stories

Temporal-order iconicity bias in narrative event understanding and memory

“…Thus, misordering the chronology of events would distort event perception and understanding. In text narratives, with the help of temporal markers (e.g., temporal connectives such as before and after), readers will construct a chronologically organised representation of a sequence of events containing flashbacks (Claus & Kelter, 2006;Foos, 1992). However, temporal markers may not be available in narratives, such as in films, as films do not have a built-in tense system as language does (Henderson, 1983).…”