An empirical and computational investigation of perceiving and remembering event temporal relations

Cognitive Science

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 345-373

  Lu, Shulan ^a   Harter, Derek ^a   Graesser, Arthur C ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE   (United States)

^b University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Beginning states; End states; Event boundary; Event breakpoint; Event representations; Event temporal relations; Knowledge representations; Overlap heuristic; Recurrent neural network

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953160853     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01016.x     Document Type: Article

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