ISSN : 1229-067X
Two experiments were conducted to investigate whether causally related sentences are represented in closely connected coherent unit. Experiment I showed that primed recognition of causally related sentences were faster than that of noncausally related sentences. Experiment II showed that this can not be attributed to the associative strength between the causally related sentences that existed prior to the experiment. These results were interpreted as supporting the 'closely connected coherent unit' view of causal information representation. The results were further interpreted in terms of a new 'deeper processing' framework.