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| Patterns of resource allocation are reliable among young and older readers | | Author(s) | Elizabeth A L Stine-Morrow, Le'Ann Milinder, Olivia Pullara |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 16, no 1, March 2001 |
| Pages | pp 69-84 |
| Keywords | Reading ; Cognitive processes ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Mental speed ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Younger and older adults read short expository passages across 2 times of measurement for subsequent comprehension or recall. Regression analysis was used to decompose word-by-word reading times into resources allocated to word and textbase level processes. Readers were more sensitive to these demands when reading for recall than when reading for comprehension. Patterns of resource allocation showed good test-retest reliabilities and were predictive of memory performance. Within age group, resource allocation parameters were not systematically correlated with other individual difference measures, suggesting that strategies of on-line resource allocation may be a unique source of individual differences in determining comprehension of and memory for text. Age differences in allocation patterns appeared to reflect general slowing among the older participants. Because older people showed equivalent memory performance to that of younger readers, the reading time data may represent the on-line resource allocation needed for comparable outcomes in older or younger readers. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020111206 A |
| Classmark | HKM: DA: DB: DG: BB: SD6: 7T |
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