Predicting without modeling: a critique of Trabasso and Bartolone (2003).

J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn

Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Published: March 2005

T. Trabasso and J. Bartolone (2003) used a computational model of narrative text comprehension to account for empirical findings. The authors show that the same predictions are obtained without running the model. This is caused by the model's computational setup, which leaves most of the model's input unchanged.

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