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| The role of reader age and focus of attention in creating situation models from narratives | | Author(s) | Daniel G Morrow, Elizabeth A L Stine-Morrow, Von O Leirer |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 52B, no 2, March 1997 |
| Pages | pp P73-P80 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Mental speed ; Older people ; Young adults [20-25] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Adult age differences in the mental representation of situations, and the way readers update this representation during narrative comprehension were examined in this US study. Older and younger adults memorised a building layout and then read narratives about a protagonist moving from one room into another, through an unmentioned path room. Each critical sentence was followed by a target sentence referring to an object in one of these rooms. Half of the target sentences explicitly mentioned the room containing this object and half did not. Reading time increased when the target object was more distant from the protagonist and when the room containing the object was not mentioned. Findings showed that older people's reading times differentially slowed with distance, and older readers who more accurately understood the narrative differentially slowed when the location of the target object was not mentioned. Finally, the more accurate readers (older and younger) slowed primarily when updating was most difficult. Although the findings indicate that older and younger people are similar in their reading, they also suggest that older readers must allocate more resources to the updating process in order to maintain comprehension. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-971125238 A |
| Classmark | DA: DB: DG: B: SD6: 7T |
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