Reading strategies and prior knowledge in learning from hypertext

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1157-1171

  Salmerón, Ladislao ^a   Kintsch, Walter ^b   Cañas, José J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERMEDIA; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; READING; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750801265     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193262     Document Type: Article

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