Reprocessing Text: Contributions From Conceptually Driven Processes

Recent claims that reprocessing benefits observed during rereading are mediated by abstract word-level representations (Carr, Brown, & Charalambous, 1989) are countered in four experiments. In these experiments we systematically varied the amount of text context that was repeated between original and rereading tasks. When subjects reread well-structured texts, the reprocessing benefit varied systematically with the text context overlap between …