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How Do We Comprehend and Remember Stories?
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How Do We Comprehend and Remember Stories? Much research has been carried out on the subject of memory by biologists, philosophers and to lesser extent psychologists; as a result there are no lack of studies to back up theories. There have been many theories and models designed to examine exactly how we understand language presented to us in story format and then remember what we have heard or read for many years after. Listening and reading stories use very similar high level processing in order for our comprehension. More research has been carried out on comprehension processes in reading than in listening to speech but as the processing is so similar any discrepancies between them will be discussed individually. There is much debate as to the number and types of representation that are formed during discourse processing; first of all however it is important to look at language at a more...
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