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| Younger and older adults' on-line processing of syntactically ambiguous sentences | | Author(s) | Karen A Kemtes, Susan Kemper |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 12, no 2, June 1997 |
| Pages | pp 362-371 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Performance ; Young adults [20-25] ; Age groups [elderly] ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Off-line studies of younger and older adults' processing of syntactically complex sentences have shown that there is a consistent negative relationship between task performance and working memory for older adults. However, it is not evident from these studies whether working memory affects the immediate syntactic analysis of a sentence, off-line processes, or both. In this study, the authors examined younger and older adults' on-line processing of the main verb and relative clause sentences, using a self-paced word-by-word reading task. Findings from this study suggest that declines in syntactic processing are not specific to all older adults. There is also support for an individual-differences approach to older people's syntactic processing: their performance is poorer, when the materials to be remembered are semantically or syntactically complex. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971120266 A |
| Classmark | DA: DB: 5H: SD6: BB: 49: 7T |
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