Comprehension skill and word-to-text integration processes

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 303-318

  Perfetti, Charles ^a,c   Yang, Chin Lung ^a   Schmalhofer, Franz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTEGRATION; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 42449091895     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1419     Document Type: Review

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