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Papers

(The median citation count of Discourse Processes is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Emotions in Reading and Learning from Texts: Progress and Open Problems	23
How Early can Embodied Responses be? Issues in Time and Sequentiality	20
Early Responses: An Introduction	19
The Roles of Identity Conflict, Emotion, and Threat in Learning from Refutation Texts on Vaccination and Immigration	16
Here’s Hoping It’s not Just Text Structure: The Role of Emotions in Knowledge Revision and the Backfire Effect	14
Micro-Sequential Coordination in Early Responses	14
Unpacking the Gestures of Chemistry Learners: What the Hands Tell Us About Correct and Incorrect Conceptions of Stereochemistry	12
The Role of Source Credibility in the Validation of Information Depends on the Degree of (Im-)Plausibility	12
Cognitive Effort in Text Processing and Reading Comprehension in Print and on Tablet: An Eye-Tracking Study	11
Reading Contexts, Goals, and Decisions: Text Comprehension as a Situated Activity	11
Discourse and Agency during Scaffolded Middle School Science Instruction	11
Embodied Responses to Questions-in-Progress: Silent Nods as Affirmative Answers	11
Working toward a theoretical model for source comprehension in everyday discourse	10
Emotions and the Comprehension of Single versus Multiple Texts during Game-based Learning	10
Examining the Simultaneous Effects of L1 Writing, L2 Reading, L2 Proficiency, and Affective Factors on Different Task Types of L2 Writing	10
Effects of Emotions, Topic Beliefs, and Task Instructions on the Processing and Memory for a Dual-Position Text	10
Turn-end Estimation in Conversational Turn-taking: The Roles of Context and Prosody	10
Emotional Responses to Seductive Scientific Texts During Online and Offline Reading Tasks	9
Introduction to the Special Issue on Emotions in Reading, Learning, and Communication	9
Please Join Me/Us/Them on My/Our/Their Journey to Justice in STEM	8
Packaging Information as Fact Versus Opinion: Consequences of the (Information-)Structural Position of Subjective Adjectives	8
Gendered Representations of Person Referents Activated by the Nonbinary Gender Star in German: A Word-Picture Matching Task	8
Bridging Inferences and Learning from Multiple Complementary Texts	8
Text-Based Manipulation of the Coherence Threshold	7
Text-Belief Consistency Effects in L2 Readers	7

Sounding others’ sensations in interaction	7
Story Grammar Elements and Mental State Terms in the Expression of Enabling Relations in Narratives of Bilingual Preschool Children	7
The Representation of Emotion Inferences	7
The Primacy of Multimodal Alignment in Converging on Shared Symbols for Novel Referents	7
The predictability of implicit causes: testing frequency and topicality explanations	6
Reading Poetry and Prose: Eye Movements and Acoustic Evidence	6
Given-New Effects on the Duration of Gestures and of Words in Face-to-Face Dialogue	6
Dynamic Resonance and Explicit Dialogic Engagement in Mandarin First Language Acquisition	6
Word Order Affects Response Latency: Action Projection and the Timing of Responses to Question-word Questions	6
An Analysis of the Linguistic Features of Popular Chinese Online Fantasy Novels	6
Reading perspectives moderate text-belief consistency effects in eye movements and comprehension	6
Social justice reasoning when students learn about social issues using multiple texts	5
When Figurative Frames Decrease Political Persuasion: The Case of Right-Wing Anti-Immigration Rhetoric	5
Anchoring your bridge: the importance of paraphrasing to inference making in self-explanations	5
To Put It Differently: A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation of Reformulation Markers in Student Essays	5
Subjectivity (Re)visited: A Corpus Study of English Forward Causal Connectives in Different Domains of Spoken and Written Language	5
Embodied Action, Projection, and Institutional Action: The Exchange of Tools and Implements During Surgical Procedures	5
Offering an Interpretation of Prior Talk in Everyday Interaction: A Semantic Map Approach	4
In Pursuit of a Good Conversation: How Contribution Balance, Common Ground, and Conversational Closings Influence Conversation Assessment and Conversational Memory	4
It’s Contagious!Examining Gamified Refutation Texts, Emotions, and Knowledge Retention in a Real-World Public Health Education Campaign	4
RETRACTED ARTICLE: The Online Processing of Causal and Concessive Relations: Comparing Native Speakers of English and German	4
The Role of Connectives and Stance Markers in the Processing of Subjective Causal Relations	4
Watch Out: Fake! How Warning Labels Affect Laypeople’s Evaluation of Simplified Scientific Misinformation	4
Measuring Comprehension Monitoring with the Inconsistency Task in Adolescents: Stability, Associations with Reading Comprehension Skills, and Differences Between Grade Levels	4
Arguing for Teachers and for Friends: Eighth-graders’ Sensitivity to Argumentation Features When Judging and Revising Persuasive Essays	4
Avoidance of gender-ambiguous pronouns as a consequence of ambiguity-avoidance strategy	4
Lost in a Story, Detached from the Words	4
The Effect of Fiction vs Nonfiction in the Digital Era: Text Comprehension not Influenced by Genre Expectations	4
Integration in Multiple-Document Comprehension: A Natural Language Processing Approach	4
Readers’ Regulation and Resolution of a Scientific Conflict Based on Differences in Source Information: An Eye-Tracking Study	3
Do different kinds of introductions influence comprehension and memory for scientific explanations?	3
Running through the Who, Where, and When: A Cross-cultural Analysis of Situational Changes in Comics	3
Information Status Predicts the Incidence of Gesture in Discourse: An Experimental Study	3
Teachers’ gestures for building listening and spoken language skills	3
Estimating Each Other’s Memory Biases in Dialogue	3
Chasing Theory with Technology: A Quest to Understand Understanding	3
Importance of Learner Characteristics in Intelligent Tutoring for Adult Literacy	2
Role of advanced theory of mind in teenagers’ evaluation of source information	2
Pinning down the interaction between animacy and syntactic function in the interpretation of German and Italian personal and demonstrative pronouns	2
Working memory capacity as a predictor of multiple text comprehension	2
Audience Design in Collaborative Dialogue between Teachers and Students	2
Bilingual Discourse Comprehension: The Role of Language Overlap in Updating the Discourse Representation	2
Visuospatial Working Memory and Understanding Co-Speech Iconic Gestures: Do Gestures Help to Paint a Mental Picture?	2
Relating Individual Differences in Reading Skill to Neural Indices of Proactive Control and Online Filtering During a Working Memory Task	2
Commentary on the Special Issue on Emotions in Reading, Learning, and Communication: A Big Step Forward, More Giant Leaps to Come	2
Processes and products of readers’ journeys to narrative worlds	2
Is viewing a painting like reading a story?: Trans-symbolic comprehension processes and aesthetic responses across two media	2
The Role of Need for Closure and Need for Cognition in Writing-Specific Psychological Factors	2
Exploring the affordances of text and picture stories	2
Vocabulary size and exposure to print predict mastery of connectives in teenage years	1

Developmental differences in children’s generation of knowledge-based inferences	1
Keeping an Eye on the Refutation Effect: The Role of Prior Knowledge and Text-Based Interest on Attention Allocation	1
Tense and Discourse Structure: The Timeline Hypothesis	1
Selective View of the Last 50 Years of the Experimental Psycholinguistics of Idiom, Metaphor, and Irony: A Commentary	1
Idiom meaning selection following a prior context: eye movement evidence of L1 direct retrieval and L2 compositional assembly	1
Modeling Satirical Uptake Using Discourse Processing Methods	1
Whom to believe? Fostering source evaluation skills with interleaved presentation of untrustworthy and trustworthy social media sources	1
Engagement with narrative characters: the role of social-cognitive abilities and linguistic viewpoint	1
Emotional shifts, event-congruent emotions, and transportation in narrative persuasion	1
The role of social status in sarcasm interpretation: Evidence from the United Kingdom and China	1
Introduction to the Special Issue: Integration: The Keystone of Comprehension	1
Conversational Roles, Generational Differences and the Emergence of Historical and Personal Memories Surrounding WWII during Familial Discussions	1
Epistemicity and communicative strategies	1
Extending Gesture’s Impact on Word Learning to Reading: A Self-Paced Reading Study	1
Comprehending irony in text: evidence from scanpaths	1
The costs of multimodal metaphors: comparing ERPs to figurative expressions in verbal and verbo-pictorial formats	1
Superman Takes a Taxi: Testing Theories of Validation with Inconsistencies in Fantastic Narratives	1
Informativity, topicality, and speech cost: comparing models of speakers’ choices of referring expressions	1
An action-specific examination of the role of answerers’ gaze orientation in managing transition relevance	1
In Pursuit of Alignment and Affiliation: The Practice of Anchoring Shared Knowledge in Japanese Conversation	1
Comprehension: from clause to conspiracy narrative	1
Working Memory, Vocabulary Breadth and Depth in Reading Comprehension: A Study with Third Graders	1
Events shape long-term memory for story information	1
How literary text reading is influenced by narrative voice and focalization: evidence from eye movements	1
Effects of a classroom intervention on college students’ sourcing skills: replication and extension study	1
Seeing Through the Character’s Eyes: Examining Phenomenological Experiences of Perspective-Taking During Reading	1
Masculine generic pronouns as a gender cue in generic statements	1
Anaphoric reference to mereological entities	1
Discourse Markers Activate Their, Like, Cohort Competitors	1
Comprehension of explicit and implicit information in prereaders: the role of maternal education, receptive vocabulary, executive functions, and theory of mind	1