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Patricia A. Carpenter
Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University
Publications - 78
Citations - 29791
Patricia A. Carpenter is an academic researcher from Carnegie Mellon University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sentence & Cognition. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 78 publications receiving 28406 citations.
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The relation between comprehending and remembering some complex sentences.
TL;DR: The verification latencies indicated that at the time of comprehension, sentences likeIt is true that a fire isn’t cold were often recoded into an equivalent affirmative form, namely, it is trueThat a fire is hot, however, negative sentences like it isn”t true that an fire is cold were not recoded during comprehension.
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Extracting information from counterfactual clauses
TL;DR: The results of a timed verification task indicated that people do represent and extract information from the more complex representation, however, when given sufficient time, subjects simplify the complex representation and thereby reduce the number of operations necessary to subsequently verify the information or store it in long-term memory.
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On the comprehension, storage, and retrieval of comparative sentences
TL;DR: The authors presented a methodology that permits the separate examination of sentence comprehension processes and subsequent sentence memory processes, and the similarity between the results of comprehension and recall was discussed in terms of a retrieval process that may be similar in both tasks.