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Suppressing Irrelevant Information: Knowledge Activation or Inhibition?
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McNamara, Danielle S.; McDaniel, Mark A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2004
In 3 experiments, the authors examined the role of knowledge activation in the suppression of contextually irrelevant meanings for ambiguous homographs. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants with greater baseball knowledge, regardless of reading skill, more quickly suppressed the irrelevant meaning of ambiguous words in baseball-related, but not…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Sentences, Inhibition, Reading Skills
The Form of Historical Knowledge and the Adolescent Conception of It. Research Report 80.
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Ahonen, Sirkka – 1990
This study reports on the historical conceptualization among Finnish 12-13 year-olds who were given a projective task to yield historical thinking. The case study examines expressions the subjects used and which were studied qualitatively, using "chunks of meaning" as units of analysis, in regard to both their meaning- content and their…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages
Learning from a Computer Tutor with Natural Language Capabilities
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Michael, Joel; Rovick, Allen; Glass, Michael; Zhou, Yujian; Evens, Martha – Interactive Learning Environments, 2003
CIRCSIM-Tutor is a computer tutor designed to carry out a natural language dialogue with a medical student. Its domain is the baroreceptor reflex, the part of the cardiovascular system that is responsible for maintaining a constant blood pressure. CIRCSIM-Tutor's interaction with students is modeled after the tutoring behavior of two experienced…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Medical Students, Computer Mediated Communication, Artificial Intelligence