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McKoon, Gail; Ratcliff, Roger – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1980
Three experiments were conducted to study the inferencing processes involved in anaphoric reference. Results show that an anaphora activates both its referent and concepts when in the same proposition as the referent, and that all three, when in the same proposition, are connected in the long-term representation of a text. (PJM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Comprehension, Concept Formation
Ratcliff, Roger; McKoon, Gail – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1978
An experiment is described that involved presenting sentences to the subject for study and then testing single words for recognition (the subject had to decide whether the test word was in one of the study sentences). A large priming effect was obtained. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Language Processing, Language Research
