Surface Information Loss in Comprehension.

Gernsbacher, Morton Ann

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Publication Date: 1985

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Surface Information Loss in Comprehension.

Gernsbacher, Morton Ann

Cognitive Psychology, v17 n3 p324-63 Jul 1985

Six experiments investigated loss of availability of surface form in sentence comprehension. Explanations for the loss included: (1) linguistic hypothesis; (2) memory limitations hypothesis; (3) integration hypothesis; and (4) processing shift hypothesis. (LMO)

Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comprehension, Higher Education, Memory, Orientation, Verbal Stimuli, Visual Stimuli

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