How the relationship between text and headings influences readers' memory

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 859-874

  Ritchey, Kristin ^a   Schuster, Jonathan ^a   Allen, Jaryn ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Headings; Reading; Signals; Text; Topic recall

Indexed keywords

EID: 52749084328     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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