Shallow Semantic Processing of Text: An Individual-Differences Account.

We used Barton and Sanford's (1993) anomaly detection task to investigate text processing differences between skilled and less-skilled readers. The results of 2 experiments showed that many readers had the tendency to process text in a shallow or incomplete manner, frequently failing to detect ano...

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Publicado en:Discourse Processes Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 187 - 205
Autores principales: Hannon, Brenda, Daneman, Meredyth
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd May2004
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