Extending capacity-constrained construction integration: Toward "smarter" and flexible models of text comprehension

Models of Understanding Text

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 73-113

  Goldman, Susan R ^a   Varma, Sashank ^a   Coté, Nathalie ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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