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Last published 2025
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William H. Levine

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associate professor

Also affiliated: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2002); Binghamton University (1999–2001)

Faculty Researcher

15 h-index 33 pubs 1,085 cited

  • Reading
  • Humans
  • Communication
  • Cognition
  • Narration
  • Space Perception
  • Female
  • Male
  • Memory
  • Knowledge
  • Adult
  • Attention
  • Memory, Short-Term
  • Problem Solving
  • Semantics

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

William H. Levine, an associate professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, investigates cognitive processes related to narrative comprehension and reader engagement. His research examines how specific elements within a story, such as different types of spoilers, influence the reader's experience. Levine also studies the effect of implicit narrator reliability on the production of information within a narrative context. His work has resulted in 33 publications with over 1,073 citations and an h-index of 15. He has collaborated with researchers such as Angel Ray Houts and Savannah K. Raines, both from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, on shared publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 15
  • Publications: 33
  • Citations: 1,085

Selected Publications

  • The Role of Different Spoiler Types in the Experience of Short Stories (2025)
    Scientific Study of Literature 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • The impact of implicit narrator reliability on production of information (2023)
    Memory & Cognition DOI OpenAlex
  • Tracking and maintenance of goal-relevant location information in narratives (2019)
    Memory & Cognition 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Tracking and maintenance of goal-relevant location information in narratives (2017)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Expressive intent, ambiguity, and aesthetic experiences of music and poetry (2017)
    PLoS ONE 46 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The Effect of Spoilers on the Enjoyment of Short Stories (2016)
    Discourse Processes 20 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Rapid communication the Mental Number Line Dominates Alternative, Explicit Coding of Number Magnitude (2015)
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A fan effect in anaphor processing: effects of multiple distractors (2014)
    Frontiers in Psychology 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Presupposition Processing and the (Re)activation of Negated Concepts (2013)
    Discourse Processes 52 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Activation of negated and non-negated entities (2012)
    Journal of Pragmatics 98 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Timbre priming effects and expectation in melody (2006)
    Journal of New Music Research 14 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Readers’ sensitivity to linguistic cues in narratives: How salience influences anaphor resolution (2004)
    Memory & Cognition 64 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Memory-Load Interference in Syntactic Processing (2002)
    Psychological Science 306 citations DOI OpenAlex

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