Causal coherence and the availability of locations and objects during narrative comprehension

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 462-470

  Sundermeier, Brian A ^a   Van Den Broek, Paul ^a   Zwaan, Rolf A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; LINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

COGNITION; HUMANS; NARRATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 26944447584     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193063     Document Type: Article

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