Reading rate and retention as a function of the number of propositions in the base structure of sentences

By Walter Kintsch, J. Keenan. 1973

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Predictors of the emergence of transformational leadership in virtual decision teams (2009, methodology): “First, idea density refers to the number of distinct ideas contained in a passage of words (Kintsch, 1972; Kintsch & Keenan, 1973).”
Cognitive burden of survey questions and response times: A psycholinguistic experiment (2010, background): “The ease with which readers comprehend the syntactic structure of a sentence heavily depends on the number of propositions it contains (Forster, 1970; Graesser, Hoffman, & Clark, 1980; Kintsch & Keenan, 1973).”
Method effects on reading comprehension test performance: text organization and response format (2002, background): “It may be related to the density of information: tightly-organized texts may compress more different ideas into a limited space so as to include all elements needed to develop an argument, and may therefore contain more new words (see Kintsch and Keenan, 1973).”
Positive emotions in early life and longevity: findings from the nun study. (2001, unknown): “Without the linguistic coders' knowledge of the age or cognitive function of each sister during late life, each autobiography was scored for two indicators of linguistic ability: idea density (Kintsch & Keenan, 1973; Turner & Greene, 1977) and grammatical complexity (Cheung & Kemper, 1992).”
Handbook of discourse processes (2003, background): “…by numerous demonstrations: Text reading time increases systematically with the number of (a) propositions, holding constant the number of words (Kintsch & Keenan, 1973); and (b) different arguments in the text, holding constant the number of propositions (Kintsch, Kozminsky, Streby, McKoon, &…”
Language comprehension is both embodied and symbolic (2008, background): “Fewer experimental studies have been conducted arguing that language processing is to a large extent amodal (but see Bransford and Franks 1971; Kintsch and Keenan 1973; Van Dijk and Kintsch 1983).”
The New C Standard (Excerpted material) An Economic and Cultural Commentary (2008, unknown): “Figure 1707.2: Two sentences, one containing four and the other eight propositions, and their propositional analyses. Based on Kintsch and Keenan.[ 22 ]”
Idea density — A potentially informative characteristic of retrieved documents (2009, background): “In a long line of psycholinguistic research started by Kintsch ([6], [8]), the proposition or idea is taken to be the basic unit involved in the understanding and retention of text.”