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Time of day and processing strategies in narrative comprehension
Author(s) -
Lorenzetti Roberta,
Natale Vincenzo
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1996.tb02586.x
Subject(s) - psychology , recall , comprehension , morning , free recall , cognitive psychology , narrative , forgetting , recall test , developmental psychology , linguistics , medicine , philosophy
We present two experiments investigating the different occurrence of comprehension strategies of written texts at different times of the day. Methods of inferential production (free recall, question answering, filling in) were adopted along with other methods reported in the literature (immediate recognition, immediate free recall, immediate cued recall). On the basis of the hypothesis that it is prevalently a maintenance strategy which is adopted in the morning vs. an elaborative strategy in the afternoon, it is suggested that recall of superficial linguistic information of the text is better in morning trials while inferential production is greater in afternoon trials. The results of both experiments on the whole agree with the predictions made.