The role of working memory capacity and knowledge access in text inference processing

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 733-743

  Singer, Murray ^a   Ritchot, Kathryn F M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LOGIC; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; THINKING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LOGIC; MEMORY; READING; THINKING;

EID: 0030277351     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/bf03201098     Document Type: Article

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