Aging and word predictability during reading: Evidence from eye movements and fixation-related potentials.

ABSTRACT: The use of context to facilitate the processing of words is recognized as a hallmark of skilled reading. This capability is also hypothesized to change with older age because of cognitive changes across the lifespan. However, research investigating this issue using eye movements or event-related potentials (ERPs) has produced conflicting findings. Specifically, whereas eye-movement studies report larger context effects for older than younger adults, ERP findings suggest that context effects are diminished or delayed for older readers. Crucially, these contrary findings may reflect methodological differences, including use of unnatural sentence displays in ERP research. To address these limitations, we used a coregistration technique to record eye movements (EMs) and fixation-related potent

SUBMITTER: Pagan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11845442 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature