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Singer, Murray; Ferreira, Fernanda – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1983
A study examining readers' ability to infer consequences backward and forward from events described in stories is described. Results show that backward consequence inferences are more reliably drawn during the course of reading than forward consequence inferences. (MSE)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, College Students, Deduction, Language Processing
