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| Inhibition in the processing of garden-path sentences | | Author(s) | Cynthia P May, Rose T Zacks, Lynn Hasher |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 14, no 2, June 1999 |
| Pages | pp 304-313 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young people ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The garden-path sentence task developed by Hartman and Hasher in 1991 misleads people to first think of a highly probable word, before providing them with a less probable word that completes the sentence and to be remembered for a later memory test. This task has been used in several studies to assess the efficiency of the deletion function of inhibition, with results suggesting that younger adults are efficient at suppressing once relevant but no longer appropriate information, whereas older adults generally are not. An alternative interpretation of patterns of access to relevant and no longer relevant sentence endings focuses on the difficulty of selecting final words for sentence frames and on integration effects in implicit memory. This alternative is considered and found wanting on the basis of both new and old empirical data. On the basis of present data and related findings, it is concluded that the task does measure inhibitory efficiency. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990825221 A |
| Classmark | DA: DB: BB: SB: 7T |
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