The computational implementation of the landscape model: Modeling inferential processes and memory representations of text comprehension

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 277-286

  Tzeng, Yuhtsuen ^a   Van Den Broek, Paul ^b   Kendeou, Panayiota ^b   Lee, Chengyuan ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEMORY; READING;

COGNITION; HUMANS; MEMORY; READING; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 26944472105     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03192695     Document Type: Conference Paper

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