Nonintentional analogical inference in text comprehension

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-49

  Day, Samuel B ^a   Gentner, Dedre ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; RECOGNITION;

EID: 34247632951     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195940     Document Type: Article

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