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On the role of prior knowledge and task demands in the processing of text
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Daneman and Carpenter as discussed by the authors used the reading span measure as an index of processing efficiency and found that domain knowledge influences processing at a situational model or mental model level but not at a micro-level or propositional level.About:
This article is published in Journal of Memory and Language.The article was published on 1988-08-01. It has received 112 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Reading span task & Sentence.read more
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Situation Models in Language Comprehension and Memory
TL;DR: The authors argue that the time has now come for researchers to begin to take the multidimensionality of situation models seriously and offer a theoretical framework and some methodological observations that may help researchers to tackle this issue.
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The Relation Between Assessment Practices and Outcomes of Studies: The Case of Research on Prior Knowledge
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of prior knowledge research and its role in student performance is presented, and the authors examine the effects of the prior knowledge in relation to the method of assessment.
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Interest and Learning From Text
TL;DR: In this article, the relation between interest and learning from text is investigated. But, it is argued that past research has failed to examine the underlying mechanisms of motivation-learning relations.
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Expertise as mental set: The effects of domain knowledge in creative problem solving
TL;DR: A series of three experiments in which an adapted version of Mednick’s (1962) remote associates task was used demonstrates conditions under which domain knowledge may inhibit creative problem solving.
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Effects of domain knowledge, working memory capacity, and age on cognitive performance: an investigation of the knowledge-is-power hypothesis.
TL;DR: The authors investigated the interplay between domain knowledge and factors that are believed to reflect general, and relatively stable, characteristics of the individual, such as working memory capacity, age, and knowledge about the game of baseball.
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Individual differences in working memory and reading
TL;DR: The reading span, the number of final words recalled, varied from two to five for 20 college students and was correlated with three reading comprehension measures, including verbal SAT and tests involving fact retrieval and pronominal reference.
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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-