A Nonconnectionist Schema Theory of Understanding Surprise-Ending Stories.

This paper compares two different ways of thinking about mental schemas that people use to comprehend and remember discourse. A parallel distributed processing (PDP) schema theory postulates that knowledge schemas are stored as connection weight patterns among units in an associative network. A nonc...

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Published in:	Discourse Processes Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 127 - 149
Main Author:	Iran-Nejad, Asgha R.
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr-Jun89
Subjects:	Schemas (Psychology) Comprehension
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