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Age-related visual impairments and perceiving linguistic stimuli
— the rarity of assessing the visual abilities of older participants in written language research | | Author(s) | Victoria A McGowan, Kevin B Paterson, Timothy R Jordan |
| Journal title | Experimental Aging Research, vol 39, no 1, January-February 2013 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, January-February 2013 |
| Pages | pp 70-79 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Visual impairment ; Cognitive processes ; Reading ; Communication skills ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | It is well established that declining visual abilities are widespread amongst older adults (aged 65 years and over) and are known to have profound effects on processing a range of visual stimuli. However, the incidence of assessing the visual abilities of older adults participating in written language research using visually presented linguistic stimuli (text, words, letters) is unknown. The authors examined all 240 articles investigating perception of visually presented linguistic stimuli (text, words, letters) by older participants, published 2000-2010 in the three foremost journals in ageing research: Experimental Aging Research; Journals of Gerontology, Series B; and Psychology and Aging. The majority of articles (68.0%) made no mention at all of participants' visual abilities (59.2%), or relied merely on participants' self-report (8.8%). Other articles (17.9%) reported participants' visual abilities without mentioning any assessment, and only 14.2% reported participants' visual abilities following appropriate assessment. The indications are that appropriate assessments of visual abilities are rarely used in language research investigating perception of visually presented linguistic stimuli by older participants. Much greater use and reporting of these assessments is needed to help reveal the processes underlying perception of written language in older populations. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130823219 A |
| Classmark | BR: DA: HKM: UO: 64A |
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