Experiments on Story Understanding and Recall
Quarterly Journal of Experimental PsychologyPublished 1 November 1976
Gordon H. Bower
Citations150
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Abstract
Text of the Fifth Sir Frederick Bartlett Lecture given at a meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society in Durham, 8Apr1976.
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