Antecedent retrieval processes.

E J O'Brien; P S Plewes; J E Albrecht

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Antecedent retrieval processes.

E J O'Brien·P S Plewes·J E Albrecht

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In three experiments we examined the nature of the search for antecedents during reading. Subjects read passages that contained two possible antecedents: one appearing early in the passages and the other appearing late. The degree of elaboration was varied, with one antecedent receiving additional elaboration for half the passages and the other antecedent receiving additional elaboration for the remaining half. Reading time differences from the first two experiments demonstrated that late antecedents are reinstated more quickly than early antecedents and elaborated antecedents are reinstated more quickly than nonelaborated antecedents. Experiment 1 showed that concepts that fall in the path of an antecedent search can be activated by the search. Experiments 2 and 3 showed that this activation is restricted to concepts that are from the same general category as the target antecedent.

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E J O'Brien, P S Plewes, J E Albrecht. 1990. Antecedent retrieval processes.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2137863/

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