PsycEXTRA Dataset 2001
DOI: 10.1037/e537102012-229
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Comprehension skill: Suppression versus knowledge activation

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“…Experiment 3 demonstrated that participants with greater general knowledge, regardless of reading skill, more quickly suppressed the irrelevant meaning of the ambiguous words in general-topic sentences. As predicted by D. S. McNamara's (1997) knowledge-based account of suppression, ambiguity effects are influenced by greater activation of knowledge related to the intended meaning of the homograph.…”
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“…Experiment 3 demonstrated that participants with greater general knowledge, regardless of reading skill, more quickly suppressed the irrelevant meaning of the ambiguous words in general-topic sentences. As predicted by D. S. McNamara's (1997) knowledge-based account of suppression, ambiguity effects are influenced by greater activation of knowledge related to the intended meaning of the homograph.…”
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“…As an alternative to Gernsbacher's proposal, McNamara (1997) proposed a “knowledge-based” account of the suppression results (Gernsbacher & Faust, 1991; Gernsbacher et al., 1990). The knowledge-based account was grounded in Kintsch's (1988, 1998) construction-integration (CI) model of comprehension.…”
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