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Bjorklund, David F.; Bernholtz, Jean E. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Compares typicality effects in recall between good and poor junior high readers to determine the influence of knowledge base upon memory. Results suggest that poor readers have a different knowledge base for familiar categories than good readers and that cognitive differences between them are related to differences in their semantic memories.…
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