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| Effects of age and passage difficulty on listening-rate preferences for time-altered speech | | Author(s) | Arthur Wingfield, Julie L Ducharme |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 54B, no 3, May 1999 |
| Pages | pp P199-202 |
| Keywords | Listening ; Cognitive processes ; Mental speed ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | When younger and older people were allowed to adjust the speech rate of time-compressed and time-expanded speech passages, older people tended to select as preferred rates significantly slower speech rates than younger people. Both age groups, however, selected slower rates for difficult passages (low cloze predictability) than for easier passages (high cloze predictability). Recall performance showed effects of speech rate and passage difficulty, with participants' recall at their selected speech rates comparable to their performance at slower rates. Results suggest that older adults are as effective as the young in their ability to monitor the difficulty of a speech passage as it is being heard, and to moderate their listening rate selections accordingly. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990826228 A |
| Classmark | UOA: DA: DG: DB: BB: SD6: 48: 7T |
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