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| Age, working memory and online syntactic processing in sentence comprehension | | Author(s) | Gloria S Waters, David Caplan |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 16, no 1, March 2001 |
| Pages | pp 128-144 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Cognitive processes ; Information technology ; Cross sectional surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | 127 individuals (age range 18 to 90) were tested on a reading span test and on measures of on-line and off-line sentence processing efficiency. Compared with younger participants, older participants had reduced working memory spans. The on-line measures were sensitive to local increases in processing load, and the off-line measures were sensitive to the syntactic complexity of the sentences. Older and younger participants showed similar effects of syntactic complexity on the on-line measures. There was some evidence that older participants were more affected than younger participants by syntactic complexity in the off-line measures. Results support the hypothesis that on-line processes involved in recognising linguistic forms and determining the literal, preferred, discourse-coherent meaning of sentences constitute a domain of language processing that relies on its own processing resource or working memory system. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020111210 A |
| Classmark | DB: DA: UVB: 3KB: 7T |
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