Revising what readers know: Updating text representations during narrative comprehension

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2019-2032

  Rapp, David N ^a   Kendeou, Panayiota ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MEMORY; NARRATIVE; PARAMETER; READING; RELIABILITY; TASK INSTRUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 38149000146     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03192934     Document Type: Article

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