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What's new? Acquiring New information as a process in comprehension
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The authors presented subjects with pairs of sentences, where the first (the context sentence) provided a context for the second (the target sentence), and the subjects were required to press a button when they felt they understood the target sentences.About:
This article is published in Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior.The article was published on 1974-10-01. It has received 999 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sentence & Inverted sentence.read more
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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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Dimensions of Consumer Expertise
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of empirical results from the psychological literature in a way that provides a useful foundation for research on consumer knowledge is provided by two fundamental distinctions: consumer expertise is distinguished from product-related experience and five distinct aspects, or dimensions, of expertise are identified.
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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.
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A theory of reading: From eye fixations to comprehension.
TL;DR: A model of reading comprehension that accounts for the allocation of eye fixations of college students reading scientific passages is presented, embedded in a theoretical framework capable of accommodating the flexibility of reading.
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The language-as-fixed-effect fallacy: A critique of language statistics in psychological research.
TL;DR: The authors showed that the language-as-fixed-effect fallacy can be avoided by doing the right statistics, selecting the appropriate design, and sampling by systematic procedures, or by proceeding according to the so-called method of single cases.
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Notes on transitivity and theme in english. part 2
TL;DR: The Journal of Linguistics as discussed by the authors published this paper in three parts, in this and the two subsequent issues of the Journal of Language and Literature, in order to deal with the themes in the clause.
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The abstraction of linguistic ideas
TL;DR: Results indicate that during an acquisition phase of the experiments, Ss spontaneously integrate the information expressed by a number of non-consecutively experienced (but semantically related) sentences into wholistic, semantic ideas, where these ideas encompass more information than any acquisition sentence contained.
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On the process of comparing sentences against pictures
TL;DR: This theory was tested in four experiments in which S s were timed as they judged whether a sentence was true or false of a picture and it was shown that this theory is consistent with previous studies on sentence comprehension, sentence verification, concept verification, and other related phenomena.