carlos has stopped dancing due to his knee injury. if you read the preceding sentence and did not know that carlos had been a dancer, you might alter your mental representation of him to include the notion that he used to go dancing. this process is called carlos has stopped dancing due to his knee injury. if you read the preceding sentence and did not know that carlos had been a dancer, you might alter your mental representation of him to include the notion that he used to go dancing. this process is called a predictive inference. a bridging inference. the reverse cohesion effect. accommodation.
