The relation between comprehending and remembering some complex sentences
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The relation between comprehending and remembering some complex sentences.
This research concerns the distinction between processes in sentence comprehension and those in sentence memory. Comprehension was monitored by timing subjects while they decided whether a sentence was true or false of their knowledge of the world. The memory process was tapped by examining subjects' incidental memory for the sentences they had previously verified. The verification latencies in...
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عنوان ژورنال: Memory & Cognition
سال: 1976
ISSN: 0090-502X,1532-5946
DOI: 10.3758/bf03213183