Naming speed during language production in younger and older adults: Examining the effects of sentence context.

ABSTRACT: Word retrieval during speech production has been found to slow down with ageing. Usually, words are produced in sentence contexts. The current studies examined how different sentence contexts influence lexical retrieval in younger and older adults. We also examined the potential influence of semantic knowledge and control on sentence-context effects. Study 1 was completed by 48 younger and 48 older adults. They named pictures that were preceded by a matched context (which predicted that specific target word), a mismatched context (predicting another word), a neutral context (that did not predict one specific word), or no context. In comparison to the neutral context, both younger and older adults' word production was faster in matched contexts, suggesting both age groups benefitted from se

SUBMITTER: Hanif N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12531402 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature