This study assessed the relative contribution of situational and memory-based influences to the reader's monitoring of complex narrative goal structures. In 2 experiments, people read stories according to which 2 collaborative subgoals had to succeed for a main goal to be achieved.

The localization of a changing target character has been demonstrated to be facilitated when more features in the target character change than when fewer features change (Smilek, Eastwood, & Merikle, 2000). The purpose of the present paper is to localize the effects of the features changing manipula...

This study scrutinized people's ability to apply different strategies to randomly intermixed immediate and delayed test items.

Inspected people's sensitivity to complex narrative goal structures. Ss were undergraduates. The stories described 2 characters' attempts to accomplish independent subgoals to achieve a joint main goal.