Although we do retain the gist of a sentence better than its verbatim form,Ferreira,Bock,Wilson,and Cohen (2008)found that participants had ______ memory for the _____ previously presented sentences.

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The study by Ferreira, Bock, Wilson, and Cohen (2008) found that participants had explicit memory (meaning they remembered consciously) for the syntax (structure) of previously presented sentences. This supports the idea that we may remember the meaning (gist) of a sentence better, but we can also be quite good at remembering the details of how a sentence was structured.

Although We Do Retain the Gist of a Sentence Better