Do readers make inferences about conversational topics?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 945-957

  Lea, R Brooke ^a   Kayser, Patrick A ^a   Mulligan, Elizabeth J ^b   Myers, Jerome L ^c  

^a MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; READING; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS;

EID: 0036755217     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195779     Document Type: Article

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