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Walter Kintsch
Researcher at University of Colorado Boulder
Publications - 136
Citations - 46161
Walter Kintsch is an academic researcher from University of Colorado Boulder. The author has contributed to research in topics: Comprehension & Reading comprehension. The author has an hindex of 65, co-authored 136 publications receiving 44785 citations.
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Toward a model of text comprehension and production.
Walter Kintsch,Teun A. van Dijk +1 more
TL;DR: The semantic structure of texts can be described both at the local microlevel and at a more global macrolevel, and a model for text comprehension based on this notion accounts for the formation of a coherent semantic text base in terms of a cyclical process constrained by limitations of working memory.
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Strategies of Discourse Comprehension
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Strategies of discourse comprehension
Teun A. van Dijk,Walter Kintsch +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define a set of rhetorical schemata to be discussed in what follows, and describe them as descriptions, not definitions, and the bus schema contains information that is neither nor-
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Comprehension: A Paradigm for Cognition
TL;DR: This work proposes a new model of comprehension processes: the construction-integration model, which combines the role of working memory, Cognition and representation, and Propositional representations.
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The role of knowledge in discourse comprehension : a construction-integration model
TL;DR: This chapter discusses data concerning the time course of word identification in a discourse context and a simulation of arithmetic word-problem understanding provides a plausible account for some well-known phenomena.