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Johnson, Marcia K.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1973
Study investigated the nature of the information that is available to Ss when they have comprehended linguistic materials. (Authors)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis, Memory, Reading Comprehension
Potts, George R. – 1975
The present series of experiments was designed to examine the factors affecting the ability of people to draw inferences from a passage of text. It was found that, using a true-false recognition test, proportion correct was higher and reaction time shorter on inferred information than on information that was actually presented. This was the case…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Processes, Memory, Prose
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Masson, Michael E. J.; Sala, Linda S. – Cognitive Psychology, 1978
Two experiments examined the roles of semantic and surface information in reading and recognizing sentences. Results indicate that reading and recognition are interactive processes, involving conceptually driven and data driven operations; the interaction may be either automatic or controlled. Semantic and surface information are conceptualized as…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Memory
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Smith, Frank; Holmes, Deborah Lott – Reading Research Quarterly, 1971
Examines and rejects two traditional assumptions about fluent reading: that identification of letters is necessary to identify words; and that identification of words is necessary to comprehend. Proposes that identification and comprehension are two separate tasks and that a reader comprehends because he reads for meaning in the first place. (MB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Memory, Models, Reading Ability