Discourse gist: A window into the brain's complex cognitive capacity

Discourse Studies

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 519-533

  Chapman, Sandra Bond ^a   Mudar, Raksha Anand ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive brain health; gist; gist reasoning training

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885900239     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445613501444     Document Type: Article

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