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Peer reviewedTardieu, Hubert; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1992
Two levels of representation in text comprehension were postulated: a propositional representation and a mental (or situation) model of the content of the text. Experimental results suggest that performance differences attributable to domain-specific knowledge reflect differences in the construction of the mental model. (26 references) (Author/LB)
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