Walter Kintsch

Walter Kintsch (born 1932) is an American Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Colorado in 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 Construction-Integration (CI) model in Comprehension: A Paradigm for Cognition.

Awards

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
  1. "Walter Kintsch's home page". Colorado.edu.
  2. "Walter Kintsch, PhD". Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences.
  3. 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.
  4. "APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions". APA.org.
  5. "Gallery of Scientists". FABBS.
  6. Slamecka, Norman J. (1978). "Review of Memory and Cognition": 141–145. doi:10.2307/1421833. JSTOR 1421833. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. "Comprehension: A paradigm for cognition". Proquest.com.
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