Failures to detect contradictions in a text: what readers believe versus what they read
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The construction-integration (CI) model of discourse comprehension is used in an experiment of contradictory statements. Subjects were made to read several conflicting and contradictory statements and they were afterwards made to recall the statements. Many of the subjects did not notice any discrepancy in the statements, they reported perfectly good statements and some explained the contradiction away. This can be explained through the CI model wherein individual differences in comprehension are accounted for.
Publication Name: Psychological Science
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0956-7976
Year: 1992
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Cognitive profiles of reading-disabled children: comparison of language skills in phonology, morphology, and syntax
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Reading-disabled children at the elementary level are characterized by problems with language skills involving phonology, morphology and syntax compared to children with normal capacities. The reduction of working memory demands on disabled readers were projected to help the children perform as well as nondisabled children in understanding complex sentence structures. Phonological skills deficiencies were common among children with reading problems.
Publication Name: Psychological Science
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0956-7976
Year: 1995
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Working memory capacity dissociates lexical and sentential context effects
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The processing of sentence-intermediate words can be affected by sentence-level context at normal reading rates, with readers who have higher working memory capacity more efficient at using this context than those with low working memory capacity. This contradicts other research which demonstrates that semantic context effects are shown to be as great or greater in poor readers than good readers. The research methodology and results are presented.
Publication Name: Psychological Science
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0956-7976
Year: 1997
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