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Peer reviewedSchwanenflugel, Paula J.; Shoben, Edward J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1983
Three experiments tested contrasting predictions of a dual-representation theory and a context availability model of concreteness effects in verbal processing. Without context, reading times/lexical decision times for abstract sentences/words were longer than for concrete sentences/words. Rated context availability was a good predictor of reaction…
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