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Measuring discourse-level processes with verbal protocols and latent semantic analysis - methodology: causal analysis

Performed a causal analysis to determine if sentences in each text are related through causal antecedents
Local causes: causal antecedents are in consecutive sentences so they should be in the reader’s working memory; 53% of sentences had causal antecedents
Distal causes: causal antecedents are not in consecutive sentences so they would no longer be in the reader’s working memory; 47% of sentences
14% of sentences had both local and distal causes and 33% had neither
If contents of a sentence require knowledge of previous sentences, then your brain will prompt you to recall those sentences through local or distal causes

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Updated 2021-06-22

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