Adults' and children's monitoring of story events in the service of comprehension

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 992-1011

  Bohn Gettler, Catherine M ^a   Rapp, David N ^b   van DenBroek, Paul ^c   Kendeou, Panayiota ^d   White, Mary Jane ^e  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d NEAPOLIS UNIVERSITY PAFOS   (Cyprus)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Development; Discourse processing; Event indexing; Narratives; Reading; Text processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; READING; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; READING;

EID: 80055039820     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-011-0085-0     Document Type: Article

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