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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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McCrudden, Matthew T.; Magliano, Joseph P.; Schraw, Gregory – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
This work examined how adjunct displays influence college readers' moment-by-moment processing of text and the products of reading, using reading time (Experiments 1 & 2), and think-aloud methodologies (Experiment 3). Participants did or did not study a diagram before reading a text. Overall, the reading time data, think-aloud data, and recall…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Reading Processes, Reader Text Relationship, College Students
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Wolfe, Michael B. W.; Magliano, Joseph P.; Larsen, Benjamin – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2005
Processing time and memory for sentences were examined as a function of the degree of semantic and causal relatedness between sentences in short narratives. In Experiments 1-2B, semantic and causal relatedness between sentence pairs was independently manipulated. Causal relatedness was assessed through pretesting and semantic relatedness was…
Descriptors: Memory, Language Processing, Sentence Structure, Semantics
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Wahlberg, Timothy; Magliano, Joseph P. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2004
This study assessed whether high functioning readers with autism are capable of drawing on prior knowledge during reading. Readers with autism and matched normal readers read ambiguous texts that described well-known historical events. The presence of an informative or noninformative title and primer texts that explicitly described the referenced…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Cues, Autism, Reading Comprehension