A dual-task procedure was used to examine the effects of text genre on prose processing, comprehension, and recall in 20 young (18-33 years) and 20 old (65-80 years) adults. Response latencies on a se...
Groups of young and old adults read a 5 1/2 page passage of expository prose under one of two instructional treatments. Since previously observed deficits in older adults' memory may be due to the lev...
BACKGROUND: This study dealt with the question whether abstract concepts and rules can be directly taught or can only be explained by using examples. The issue, known as Meno's Paradox, was addressed ...
Identification of `information structure' (organization of information within an utterance) is crucial for processing contextually-appropriate linguistic forms in many NLP systems. This paper presents...
A chapter of expository text was presented on a CRT with optional "windowing" of definitions of selected words varying in relevance to each screen's main ideas. A test treatment was interposed to infl...
Variance (or standard deviation) of return is widely used as a measure of risk in financial investment risk analysis applications, where mean-variance analysis is applied to calculate efficient fronti...
Identification of `information structure' (organization of information within an utterance) is crucial for processing contextually-appropriate linguistic forms in many NLP systems. This paper presents...