Improving question answering from short texts by 9- to 11-year-old children using induction tasks.
Visually searching for verbal information is a complex activity for young readers. An eye-tracking experiment was conducted to investigate whether preactivation of different word-processing pathways by means of semantic or perceptual induction tasks could help children aged 9 to 11 to search for ans...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 2; pp. 586 - 605 |
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