Millis, K. K., Graesser, A. C., & Haberlandt, K. F. (1993). The impact of connectives on the memory for expository texts. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 7(4), 317-339.

Millis, K.; Graesser, A.; Haberlandt, K.

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Millis, K. K., Graesser, A. C., & Haberlandt, K. F. (1993). The impact of connectives on the memory for expository texts. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 7(4), 317-339.

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Three experiments investigated the influence of connectives on memory for expository text. Ss in Exps 1 and 2 read and later recalled passages with either no connectives, temporal connectives, causal connectives, or intentional connectives. The recall for passages without connectives was higher than the recall for passages with connectives. Results partially supported a semantic complexity hypothesis, which predicted that recall should increase with the semantic complexity of the connective (i.e., temporal

The appropriateness of connective influenced the proportion of statements recalled. The equal reading times across the versions are consistent with the data-limited rather than the resource-limited view of processing. That is, if subjects were generating many resource-consuming elaborations in the no-connective conditions, then one may expect longer reading times in the no-connective conditions as compared to the connective conditions.

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