Walter Kintsch

The Representation of Meaning in Memory (Ple: Memory)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1974, this volume presents empirical and theoretical investigations of the role of meaning in psychological processes. A theory is proposed for the representation of the meaning of texts, employing ordered lists of propositions. The author explores the adequacy of this representation, with respect to the demands made upon such formulations by logicians and linguists. A sufficiently large number of problems are encompassed by the propositional theory to justify its use in psychological research into memory and language comprehension.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781138989849
• ISBN-10: 1138989843
• Artikelnr.: 44395729

Autorenporträt

Walter Kintsch

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. 1. Orienting Attitudes Part 1: Theory 2. A Propositional Theory
for the Representation of Meaning in Knowledge and Memory 3. On the
Adequacy of Propositional Text Bases for the Representation of Meaning 4. A
Process Model for Episodic Memory: The Encoding and Retrieval of
Experiences Part 2: Experimental Investigations 5. On the Abstract Nature
of the Memory Representations for Texts (with D. Monk) 6. The Psychological
Reality of Text Bases I: Reading Rate and Comprehension (with J.M. Keenan)
7. The Psychological Reality of Text Bases II: Sentence Memory 8. Memory
for Information Inferred During Reading 9. Memory Search I: Paragraph
Memory and the Retrieval of Information 10. Memory Search II: The Use of
Knowledge in the Verification of Statements 11. Lexical Decomposition:
Compression and Memory 12. Interim Conclusions. References. Author Index.
Subject Index.