Language Comprehension: Sentence and Discourse Processing
Annual Review of PsychologyPublished 1 January 1995
Patricia A. Carpenter, Akira Miyake, Marcel Adam Just
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The author revealed that algorithms in Text Comprehension had changed in the way that language-based models had changed over time, particularly in relation to the role of encoding and retrieval.
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