You are reading a photocopy of an article. The last few words on the right side of the page didn't copy well and are blurry. If these blurry words are the last words of a sentence, you can decipher them more easily than if they are the first words of a sentence. This difference in comprehension is most likely a result of ______.

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This is because top-down processing involves using context and prior knowledge to understand incomplete or ambiguous information. In this case, the context provided by the rest of the sentence helps you fill in the missing or unclear words at the end of a sentence.

You Are Reading a Photocopy of an Article