Learning from texts: activation of information from previous texts during reading
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Learning from texts: activation of information from previous texts during reading
Learning often involves integration of information from multiple texts. The aim of the current study was to determine whether relevant information from previously read texts is spontaneously activated during reading, allowing for integration between texts (experiment 1 and 2), and whether this process is related to the representation of the texts (experiment 2). In both experiments, texts with ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Reading and Writing
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0922-4777,1573-0905
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-016-9630-3