Walter Kintsch
Walter Kintsch (born 1932) is an American Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Colorado Boulder (United States).[1] He is renowned for his groundbreaking theories in cognitive psychology, especially in relation to text comprehension.
Early life[]
Walter Kintsch was born in Timișoara, raised in Austria and received his PhD at the University of Kansas in 1960.[2]
Research[]
His research focus has been on the study of how people understand language, using both experimental methods and computational modeling techniques. He formulated a psychological process theory of discourse comprehension that views comprehension as a bottom-up process in which various alternatives are explored in parallel, resulting in an incoherent intermediate mental representation that is then cleaned up by an integration process. Integration is a constraint satisfaction process that ensures that those constructions that are linked together become strongly activated, whereas contradictory and irrelevant elements become deactivated.[3] Kintsch details the in Comprehension: A Paradigm for Cognition.
Awards[]
- In 1992 he won the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology.[4]
- He is honored by the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences as one of the "scientists who have made important and lasting contributions to the sciences of mind, brain, and behavior".[5]
- He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Humboldt University in Berlin in 2001.
Selected publications[]
- Learning, Memory and Conceptual Processes, Wiley, 1972, (ISBN 978-0471480716)
- Memory and Cognition, Wiley, 1977, (ISBN 978-0471480723)[6]
- Toward a model of text comprehension and production, Psychological Review, 1978, 85, pp. 363–394
- The role of knowledge in discourse comprehension : a construction-integration model, Psychological Review, 1988, vol 95, pp. 163–182
- Comprehension: A Paradigm for Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 1998, (ISBN 978-0521629867)[7]
- The Representation of Meaning in Memory, Erlbaum, 1974. Reprinted, Routledge 2014, Kindle eBook, 2014
References[]
- ^ "Walter Kintsch's home page". Colorado.edu.
- ^ "Walter Kintsch, PhD". Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences.
- ^ Goldman, S. R.; Varma, Sashank (1995). "CAPping the construction-integration model of discourse comprehension: Essays in honor of Walter Kintsch". University of Minnesota Law. pp. 337–358.
- ^ "APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions". APA.org.
- ^ "Gallery of Scientists". FABBS.
- ^ Slamecka, Norman J. (1978). "Review of Memory and Cognition": 141–145. doi:10.2307/1421833. JSTOR 1421833. Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - ^ "Comprehension: A paradigm for cognition". Proquest.com.
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