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The Mechanism of Suppression: A Component of General Comprehension Skill

We investigated whether the cognitive mechanism of suppression underlies differences in adult comprehension skill. Less skilled comprehenders reject less efficiently the inappropriate meanings of ambiguous words (e.g., the playing card vs. garden tool meaning of spade), the incorrect forms of homoph...

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Published in:J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn
Main Authors: Gernsbacher, Morton Ann, Faust, Mark E.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 1991
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4311900/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1827830
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