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| Aging and the effects of knowledge on on-line reading strategies | | Author(s) | Lisa M Soederberg Miller, Elizabeth A L Stine-Morrow |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 53B, no 4, July 1998 |
| Pages | pp P223-P233 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Cognitive processes ; Mental speed ; Information technology ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The effects of knowledge on on-line reading strategies and how they relate to subsequent memory performance among young and older adults were investigated. Participants read passages with vague, ill-defined content word by word on a computer screen for immediate recall; reading times were recorded. High-knowledge (HK) readers received passage title that clarified the content, and low-knowledge (LK) readers did not. Reading strategy was found to be related to age, knowledge, and subsequent recall performance. LK readers, particularly those who produced high levels of recall, spent differentially more time at intra-sentence and sentence boundaries, suggesting that they allocated more processing resources to consolidate the concepts in the seemingly disjointed text. HK readers, on the other hand, showed facilitation in this organisational processing. These beneficial effects were more pronounced for older than younger readers, suggesting that they took special advantage of knowledge in the on-line processing of discourse. Older LK readers with above average recall were differentially slowed at boundaries, showing that more successful older readers allocated more time to organise and integrate text. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980903235 A |
| Classmark | DB: DA: DG: UVB: BB: SD6: 7T |
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