The representation of meaning in memory. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Walter Kintsch, with the collaboration of Edward J. Crothers [and others].
• Other Names: Kintsch, Walter, 1932-
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; 1 ORIENTING ATTITUDES; PART I THEORY; 2 A PROPOSITIONAL THEORY FOR THE REPRESENTATION OF MEANING IN KNOWLEDGE AND MEMORY; 1. Propositions; 2. The Text Base; 3. The Structure of Semantic Memory; 4. Acceptability and Metaphors; 5. Psychological Process Models; 3 ON THE ADEQUACY OF PROPOSITIONAL TEXT BASES FOR THE REPRESENTATION OF MEANING; 1. Definite and Indefinite Description; 2. Quantification; 3. Modality; 4. Implication and Presupposition; 5. Location, Time, and Tense. 6. Conclusion4 A PROCESS MODEL FOR EPISODIC MEMORY: THE ENCODING AND RETRIEVAL OF EXPERIENCES; 1. Critical Issues; 2. A General Theory of Storage, Organization, and Retrieval in Episodic Memory; 3. Applications; 4. Discussion; PART II EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIO; 5 ON THE ABSTRACT NATURE OF THE MEMORY REPRESENTATIONS FOR TEXTS; 1. Drawing Inferences from Syntactically Simple and Complex Paragraphs; 2. Inference Latencies and Paragraph Length; 6 THE PSYCHOLOGICAL REALITY OF TEXT BASES I: READING RATE AND COMPREHENSION; 7 THE PSYCHOLOGICAL REALITY OF TEXT BASES II: SENTENCE MEMORY. 1. Recall of Propositions as a Function of their Position in the Hierarchical Structure2. Effects of Propositional Structure upon Sentence Recall; 8 MEMORY FOR INFORMATION INFERRED DURING READING; 1. The Identification of Explicitly and Implicitly Presented Information; 2. Response Latencies to Explicit and Implicit Statements as a Function of the Delay Between Reading and Test; 9 MEMORY SEARCH I: PARAGRAPH MEMORY AND THE RETRIEVAL OF INFORMATION; 1. Experiment I: Latencies of True-False Judgments as a Function of the Length of Paragraphs. 2. Experiment II: Recognition Latencies as a Function of Paragraph Length3. Discussion; 10 MEMORY SEARCH II: THE USE OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE VERIFICATION OF STATEMENTS; 1. Review; 2. Judgments of Semantic Acceptability; 3. Theoretical Implications; 11 LEXICAL DECOMPOSITION: COMPRESSION AND MEMORY; 1. The Problem; 2. Experiments on Processing Difficulty; 3. Memory Experiments; Conclusion; 12 INTERIM CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX.
• Publisher Details: London : Psychology Press, Taylor and Francis
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (290 pages)
• Subjects: 153.1/2 153.12; Memory; Meaning (Psychology); PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology; SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science; Meaning (Psychology); Memory; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317744894; 1317744896; 9781315794563; 9781317744870; 9781317744887; 1317744888; 9781848723757; 9781138989849; 1138989843
• Related ISBNs: 131579456X; 9781848723757; 9781848723214; 131774487X; 184872375X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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