Inference making while reading narrative and expository texts: An ERP study.
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Inference making while reading narrative and expository texts: An ERP study
Much of the recent research on discourse comprehension has centered on the readers’ ability to construct coherent mental representations of texts. In order to form a unifi ed representation of a given text, a reader must be able to join the information presented in the text with his/her background knowledge to construe the meaning that may not be explicitly stated, through the generation of inf...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Psychology & Neuroscience
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1983-3288,1984-3054
DOI: 10.3922/j.psns.2009.2.005