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| Narrative comprehension and aging: the fate of completed goal information | | Author(s) | Gabriel A Radvansky, Jacqueline M Curiel |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 13, no 1, March 1998 |
| Pages | pp 69-79 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Mental speed ; Older people ; Adults ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Previous studies have demonstrated that older adults are able to use situational models in a way similar to younger adults. However, other areas of cognition have shown that older adults are less able to remove irrelevant information from the current stream of processing. The research reported in this article tested whether older and younger adults would differ in reducing the availability of information about a completed goal in a situation model during narrative comprehension. In two experiments, memory probes tested for the availability of protagonist goal information during reading when it was either failed goal, completed goal, or neutral information. The findings for both age groups revealed that goal information was most available in the failed goal condition, less available in the completed goal condition, and least available in the neutral condition. No reliable differences between younger and older adults in the pattern of response times were observed. Reading time data were also examined to explore the possibility that older adults engage in a longer wrap-up period after a goal is completed, but no such difference was found. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980708407 A |
| Classmark | DA: DB: DG: B: SD: 7T |
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