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The present study addresses a key issue in analogical thinking: whether and how people retrieve analogical information from long-term memory using a cross-cultural approach. Both American and Iranian participants read analogues of culturally familiar as well as unfamiliar folkta…

This dissertation uses the processing of anaphoric relations to probe how linguistic information is encoded in and retrieved from memory during real-time sentence comprehension. More specifically, the dissertation attempts to resolve a tension between the demands of a linguistic…