Getting a picture that is both accurate and stable: Situation models and epistemic validation

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 237-255

  Schroeder, Sascha ^a   Richter, Tobias ^a   Hoever, Inga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Situation model; Text comprehension; Validation; Verification

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849086069     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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