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| How aging affects the reading of words in noisy backgrounds | | Author(s) | Filippo Speranza, Meredyth Daneman, Bruce A Schneider |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 15, no 2, June 2000 |
| Pages | pp 253-258 |
| Keywords | Reading ; Mental ageing ; Mental clarity ; Young adults [20-25] ; Age groups [elderly]. |
| Annotation | 12 young adults (mean age 21.7) and 12 older people (mean age 68.7) were shown simple sentences masked by visual noise. In half of the sentences, the final word was predictable; in the other half, it was not. Older participants were able to identify the same number of final words as the younger ones, only when the intensity of the visual noise was significantly diminished. However, the difference in the number of correct identifications between predictable and unpredictable conditions was higher for the older observers than the younger observers, indicating that older observers benefit from context more. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001024205 A |
| Classmark | HKM: D6: DF: SD6: BB |
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