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Coll-Florit, Marta; Gennari, Silvia P. – Cognitive Psychology, 2011
This work investigates how we process and represent event duration in on-line language comprehension. Specifically, it examines how events of different duration are processed and what type of knowledge underlies their representations. Studies 1-4 examined verbs and phrases in different contexts. They showed that durative events took longer to…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Cues, Semantics, Reading Instruction
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Ferguson, Heather J.; Sanford, Anthony J. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2008
Counterfactual reasoning is valid reasoning arising from premises that are true in a hypothetical model, but false in actuality. Investigations of counterfactuals have concentrated on reasoning and production, but psycholinguistic research has been more limited. We report three eye-movement studies investigating the comprehension of counterfactual…
Descriptors: Investigations, Psycholinguistics, Thinking Skills, Eye Movements
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Howe, Mark L.; Gagnon, Nadine; Thouas, Lisa – Journal of Memory and Language, 2008
The effects of within- versus between-languages (English-French) study and test on rates of bilingual children's and adults' true and false memories were examined. Children aged 6 through 12 and university-aged adults participated in a standard Deese-Roediger-McDermott false memory task using free recall and recognition. Recall results showed…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Memory, Bilingualism, English