The effects of readers' goals on inference generation and memory for texts

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1081-1087

  Van den Broek, Paul ^a   Lorch, Robert F ^b   Linderholm, Tracy ^a   Gustafson, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLLEGE STUDENT; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MEMORY; READING; RECALL; STANDARD;

ADULT; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; READING;

EID: 0035717687     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03206376     Document Type: Article

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