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1956 • 16,233 citations

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The Representation of Meaning in Memory

1975 • 2,092 citations

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Advances in developmental psychology

1981 • 1,683 citations

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1984 • 589 citations

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1952 • 543 citations

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1981 • 535 citations

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1977 • 474 citations

A code in the node: The use of a story schema in retrieval∗

1978 • 440 citations

Cognitive Development

1978 • 400 citations

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1978 • 400 citations

Theory of serial pattern learning: Structural trees.

1970 • 354 citations

Language comprehension in old age

1979 • 297 citations

The development of memory in Children

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Generalized event representations: basic building blocks of cognitive development

1981 • 284 citations

What is memory aging the aging of?

1978 • 263 citations

A tale of two structures: Underlying and surface forms in stories

1980 • 197 citations

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1978 • 196 citations

Analysis of the Wais Subtests in Relation to Age and Education

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Memories of Morocco: The influence of age, schooling, and environment on memory

1978 • 123 citations

Cross-cultural Invariance in Story Recall

1980 • 122 citations

Cross-Cultural Invariance in Story Recall

1980 • 121 citations

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1982 • 121 citations

Identification of the Structure of prose and Its Implications for the Study of Reading and Memory

1975 • 111 citations

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1979 • 101 citations

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1983 • 96 citations

Is There More than One Way to Recall a Story?

1979 • 90 citations

Text Recall in Adulthood as a Function of Level of Information, Input Modality, and Delay Interval

1982 • 89 citations

Developmental changes in picture recognition

1978 • 84 citations

Information recalled from prose by young, middle, and old adult readers

1981 • 81 citations

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1978 • 78 citations

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1981 • 75 citations

Is There More Than One Way to Recall a Story?

1979 • 74 citations

Why Are There Old People

1983 • 61 citations

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1981 • 55 citations

Comprehension and Retention of Television Programs by 20-and 60-year Olds

1983 • 46 citations

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1983 • 43 citations

Free recall by in-school and out-of-school adults: Performance and metamemory.

1983 • 43 citations

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