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Aging and lexical inhibition
— the effect of orthographic neighborhood frequency in young and older adults | | Author(s) | Christelle Robert, Stéphanie Mathey |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 62B, no 6, November 2007 |
| Pages | pp P340-P342 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Mental clarity ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Comparison ; France. |
| Annotation | This study examined whether the lexical inhibition underlying neighbourhood effects on visual word recognition is changed with ageing. To do so, orthographic neighbourhood frequency was manipulated for French words that had either no higher frequency neighbour (e.g. taupe) or at least one higher frequency neighbour (e.g. the word loupe has two higher frequency neighbours, coupe and soupe). Native French speakers, 27 young adults (mean age 20.9) and 27 older people (mean age 77.8) performed a lexical decision task with 64 five-letter words from the French lexical database BRULEX. An interaction was found between age group and orthographic neighbourhood frequency or word latencies. More precisely, an inhibitory neighbourhood frequency effect (NFE) was observed for young adults, but not for the older ones. These data are consistent with the assumption of an age-related decline in lexical inhibition and activation. The findings are discussed in the framework of visual word recognition and ageing. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080307213 A |
| Classmark | DA: DF: BB: SD6: 48: 765 |
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