Representational complexity and memory retrieval in language comprehension
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Representational Complexity and Memory Retrieval in Language Comprehension.
Mental representations formed from words or phrases may vary considerably in their feature-based complexity. Modern theories of retrieval in sentence comprehension do not indicate how this variation and the role of encoding processes should influence memory performance. Here, memory retrieval in language comprehension is shown to be influenced by a target's representational complexity in terms ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Language and Cognitive Processes
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0169-0965,1464-0732
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2010.492642