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Haberlandt, Karl – 1983
Two experiments examined the cognitive resources used by readers in sentence modeling (summarizing the propositions in a sentence) as a function of reader task and of sentence complexity. It was predicted that encoding a sentence into memory for later recall would require more cognitive resources than reading a text to answer immediate questions,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Encoding (Psychology), Higher Education