The role of general cognitive skills in integrating visual and linguistic information during sentence comprehension: individual differences across the lifespan.

ABSTRACT: Individuals exhibit massive variability in general cognitive skills that affect language processing. This variability is partly developmental. Here, we recruited a large sample of participants (N = 487), ranging from 9 to 90 years of age, and examined the involvement of nonverbal processing speed (assessed using visual and auditory reaction time tasks) and working memory (assessed using forward and backward Digit Span tasks) in a visual world task. Participants saw two objects on the screen and heard a sentence that referred to one of them. In half of the sentences, the target object could be predicted based on verb-selectional restrictions. We observed evidence for anticipatory processing on predictable compared to non-predictable trials. Visual and auditory processing speed had main effe

SUBMITTER: Hintz F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11294566 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature