Story Understanding and Counterfactual Reasoning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 904-923

  Trabasso, Tom ^a   Bartolone, Jake ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LOGIC; PROBLEM SOLVING; READING; RECALL;

COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LOGIC; MENTAL RECALL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0142073302     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.29.5.904     Document Type: Article

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