Explanation Answer and explanation The core assumption of a situation model is that reading or hearing a story leads to the development of a model which reproduces the motor and the perceptual features of the objects mentioned in the story. Thus, these models are mental representations of the actions and objects in the story. Various studies have examined the concept of situation models. A reaction time study by Stanfield and Zwaan (in 2001), found that when orientation of the object in the picture and the orientation implied in the sentence presented to the participants were the same, it took lesser time to recognize the two objects as same as compared to when the orientation in the picture and sentence were different. Another study, conducted by Zwaan and colleagues (2002), found similar results when the shape of the object in the picture and story were compared. Hauk's study on the regions of the brain getting activated when an individual performed an activity and when they read words depicting actions, also supports this approach to understanding stories...

Introduction Situation models suggest when people read or hear stories, they form mental representations of the perceptual and motor characteristics of the object(s) in the story.

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