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Comprehension: A Paradigm for Cognition
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This work proposes a new model of comprehension processes: the construction-integration model, which combines the role of working memory, Cognition and representation, and Propositional representations.
Strategies of discourse comprehension
rhetorical schemata to be discussed in what follows. Finally, schemata are descriptions, not definitions. The ‘bus’ schema contains information that is nor-
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The role of knowledge in discourse comprehension: a construction-integration model.
  • W. Kintsch
  • Sociology
    Psychological review
  • 1 April 1988
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses data concerning the time course of word identification in a discourse context. A simulation of arithmetic word-problem understanding provides a plausible…
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Long-term working memory.
To account for the large demands on working memory during text comprehension and expert performance, the traditional models of working memory involving temporary storage must be extended to include…
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Are Good Texts Always Better? Interactions of Text Coherence, Background Knowledge, and Levels of Understanding in Learning From Text
Two experiments, theoretically motivated by the construction-integration model of text comprehension (W. Kintsch, 1988), investigated the role of text coherence in the comprehension of science texts.…
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The role of knowledge in discourse comprehension : a construction-integration model
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The representation of meaning in memory
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Toward a model of text comprehension and production.
The semantic structure of texts can be described both at the local microlevel and at a more global macrolevel. A model for text comprehension based on this notion accounts for the formation of a…
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Handbook of latent semantic analysis
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This book discusses Latent Semantic Analysis as a Theory of Meaning, its application in Cognitive Theory, and its applications in Educational Applications.
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Text comprehension, memory, and learning.
  • W. Kintsch
  • Psychology
    The American psychologist
  • 1 April 1994
TLDR
Data are presented to show that for readers with adequate background knowledge, texts with coherence gaps that stimulate constructive activities are in fact better for learning.
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