Understanding the centrality deficit: Insight from foreign language learners

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 873-883

  Miller, Amanda C ^a   Keenan, Janice M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreign language processing; Memory for text; Prior knowledge; Reading comprehension

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; READING; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MULTILINGUALISM; READING; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 80055034625     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-010-0062-z     Document Type: Article

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