Carol H. Walker

TL;DR: Results of an inference verification task suggested that information high in the structure is more likely to be integrated than information low in theructure, and premises occurring together in the text were found to promote faster correct decisions than premises occurring separately.

TL;DR: The authors examined characteristics of text that determine when a repeated noun has a clearly identified referent and found that verb and article modifiers influence whether a noun is merely a repeated word in a text, or whether it is redundant at the propositional level.

TL;DR: This article explored the linguistic processes that underlie the integration of two sentences and found that the linguistic markings of both the direct antecedent and its anaphor are important in comprehension.

TL;DR: This chapter describes the influence of domain knowledge on inferences that low-aptitude individuals make in the course of comprehending a complex message by presenting two studies.

TL;DR: The data argue that the ability to reason within a complex domain is not simply the result of acquiring the requisite declarative knowledge, Rather, reasoning ability depends on problem solving practice and real-world experience in the domain.