Reading both high-coherence and low-coherence texts: Effects of text sequence and prior knowledge

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 51-62

  McNamara, Danielle S ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; RANDOMIZATION; READING; SEMANTICS; TIME;

COGNITION; HUMANS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; READING; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035290114     PISSN: 11961961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0087352     Document Type: Article

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