Character profiles and the activation of predictive inferences

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1044-1052

  Peracchi, Kelly A ^a   O'Brien, Edward J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHARACTER; COGNITION; CONFLICT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LOGIC; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE INFERENCE; READING;

EID: 14844333102     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196880     Document Type: Article

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