Typing in Tandem: Language Planning in Multisentence Text Production Is Fundamentally Parallel.
Classical serial models view the process of producing a text as a chain of discrete pauses during which the next span of text is planned and bursts of activity during which this text is output onto the page or computer screen. In contrast, parallel models assume that by default planning of the next...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Experimental Psychology. General Vol. 154; no. 7; pp. 1824 - 1855 |
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American Psychological Association
Jul2025
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