When I write or edit a story, which story-world facts does cognitive research say a reader is tracking from beat to beat, and what happens to comprehension effort when they change?

The event-indexing model (Zwaan, Langston & Graesser 1995, as summarised by Zwaan & Radvansky 1998 and restated by Zwaan 2016) says readers index each new event on time, space, causation, goal/intentionality and protagonist/entity, and integrate it more easily the more of these it shares with the current model. Reported support is reading-time and relatedness data from lab texts; the 1998 review itself says the model is incomplete (links unspecified) and found no strong evidence of spontaneous spatial tracking. The primary 1995 papers were not reachable, so numbers from them are not given. Curator qualifications: Batch excerpt check over all 11 S13 sources: 64/65 matched directly; the 65th present with figure-label spacing ('Fig. 1 c, d'). S1 header: 'Psychological Bulletin 1998, Vol. 123, No. 2, 162-185 Copyright 1998 by the American Psychological Association, Inc'. S5: 'For the temporal and spatial dimensions (see Fig. 1 c, d respectively), no effects of consistency were evident'; '192' 2 hits; 'emotion' 49. Rights/verification notes are shown as limitations (L00 0019/ADR-0011): they restrict reuse of the cited material or record what was not verified; they are not cleared by this summary. Limitations: [component_reuse_restriction] Rights hold: S1 is an APA-copyrighted article (1998) hosted as a course reading with no stated licence; quote-limited, link-only. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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