Diving into a pool or volcano? Examining the influence of sentence context and task demands on sentence reading in younger and older adults.

ABSTRACT: Cognitive ageing is often associated with slower lexical processing, which might influence both language production and comprehension. Words are typically used in context, which can further influence word processing and potential age differences. However, it remains unclear how older adults are affected by context during reading. Older adults are reported to have in-tact semantic knowledge, which could potentially help them to process words predicted by semantic information in the preceding context. However, potential difficulties with semantic control might mean older adults have greater difficulty suppressing interfering information from mismatching contexts. In this study we examined the influence of contexts that either predicted a specific target word ("matched", e.g., "The man watche

SUBMITTER: Haigh P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9803221 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature