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COGSCI
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
Contextualizing Counterintuitiveness: How Context Affects Comprehension and Memorability of Counterintuitive Concepts
A number of anthropologists have argued that religious concepts are minimally counterintuitive and that this gives them mnemic advantages. This paper addresses the question of why...
M. Afzal Upala, Lauren O. Gonce, Ryan D. Tweney, D...
ACL
2012
11 years 7 months ago
You Had Me at Hello: How Phrasing Affects Memorability
Understanding the ways in which information achieves widespread public awareness is a research question of significant interest. We consider whether, and how, the way in which th...
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Justin Cheng, Jo...