Discourse comprehension

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue , 1997, Pages 163-189

  Graesser, Arthur C ^a   Millis, Keith K ^b   Zwaan, Rolf A ^c  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse processing; Inferences; Reading; Text comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031476367     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.48.1.163     Document Type: Article

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