Starting from scratch and building brick by brick in comprehension

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 812-826

  Kurby, Christopher A ^a   Zacks, Jeffrey M ^b  

^a GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse processing; Event segmentation; Situation models; Updating

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; READING; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; NARRATION; READING;

EID: 84863437791     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-011-0179-8     Document Type: Article

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