Publications

Publication details [#1684]

Bransford, John D. and Nancy S. McCarrell. 1974. A sketch of a cognitive approach to comprehension: Some thoughts about understanding what it means to comprehend. In Weimer, Walter B. and David S. Palermo, eds. Cognition and the symbolic processes. L. Erlbaum. pp. 189–229.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

comprehension | context | knowledge

Annotation

An approach to the problem of comprehension, focusing on the comprehender's ability to use general knowledge and contextual information to create situations that permit the relations specified in input sentences to be realized, or to postulate situations that allow perceptual events to be understood.

Reviewed by

Brewer, William F. 1974. The problem of meaning and the interrelations of the higher mental processes. In Weimer, Walter B. and David S. Palermo, eds. Cognition and the symbolic processes. L. Erlbaum. pp. 263–298.

Reprints

Johnson-Laird, Philip N. and P.C. Wason. 1977. In Johnson-Laird, Philip N. and P.C. Wason, eds. Thinking: Readings in cognitive science. Cambridge University Press. pp. 377–399.