ABSTRACTThe purpose of the present study was to investigate the extent to which readers make inferences and integrations during reading. The research questions were: first, do subjects infer script‐arguments and second, do subjects search for earlier instantiations of script‐ or nonscript‐arguments in the episodic memory structure (integration)? In three experiments, subjects read stories with sentences mentioning concepts that were semantically highly related to the theme of a story or semantically less related (by using typical script‐arguments or nonscript‐arguments). In addition, reading style and reading‐instruction were varied. Slow readers and readers with a careful‐reading instruction appeared to infer script‐arguments and integrated arguments to a high degree. Fast readers and readers with a fluent‐reading instruction did not infer script‐information and showed few integrations. They seemed to constrain themselves to a context