Task Demands and Sentence Reading Comprehension among Healthy Older Adults: The Complementary Roles of Cognitive Reserve and Working Memory.

ABSTRACT: Ageing entails different functional brain changes. Education, reading experience, and leisure activities, among others, might contribute to the maintenance of cognitive performance among older adults and are conceptualised as proxies for cognitive reserve. However, ageing also conveys a depletion of working memory capacity, which adversely impacts language comprehension. This study investigated how cognitive reserve proxies and working memory jointly predict the performance of healthy older adults in a sentence reading comprehension task, and how their predictive value changes depending on sentence structure and task demands. Cognitively healthy older adults (n = 120) completed a sentence-picture verification task under two conditions: concurrent viewing of the sentence and picture

SUBMITTER: Martin-Aragoneses MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10046703 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature