Individual differences in readers' sentence- and text-level representations

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 129-145

  Long, Debra L ^a   Oppy, Brian J ^b   Seely, Mark R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0030637322     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1996.2485     Document Type: Article

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