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Thorndyke, Perry W. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
This study examined how people use inferences to aid comprehension of connected discourse. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Connected Discourse, Language Research, Learning Processes
Spiro, Rand J. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1980
Reports an experiment which supports the predictions of the accommodative-reconstruction hypothesis that recall is not based on retrieval of stored traces of interpreted experience. It involves accommodating details of what is to be remembered to what is known at the time of recall. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Language Processing, Learning Processes, Memory
