Mechanism of Temporal Information Processing in Narratives

Moving window display technique was used to investigate the inner mechanism of temporal information processing in narratives. In experiment 1，interferential reading paradigm was used to differentiate the different assumptions，and found that the results were consistent to the anticipation of the scenarios model and the experience simulation assumption. In experiment 2，the same reading paradigm as experiment 1 was used to differentiate the distinction between the scenarios model and the experience simulation assumption，and found that the results were consistent to the anticipation of the experience simulation assumption. In experiment 3，non-interferential reading paradigm was used to further verify the probability of the experience simulation assumption in normal reading condition. The results indicated that a reader might process temporal information by experience simulation，referring to the temporal experience of former events. The study validated the experience simulation assumption to some extent.