Our study is designed to understand how the complexity of information (propositional density) in texts affects the ability to remember and recognize what people have just read. In simpler terms, we are looking at whether texts that pack more ideas into fewer words make it harder or easier for people to recall and recognize information shortly after reading. To do this, we will have people read texts with varying levels of complexity to read. After reading, people will be given a recognition test to determine how well they remember the basic facts (the "surface level"), the main ideas or messages of the text (the "textbase level"), or the overall situation or story being described (the "situation model level"). By comparing how people perform on this test, we aim to gain insights into how information is presented in texts influences what they remember immediately after reading and what they forget.
