Reduced Syntactic Processing Efficiency in Older Adults During Sentence Comprehension
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Reduced Syntactic Processing Efficiency in Older Adults During Sentence Comprehension
Researchers have frequently reported an age-related decline in semantic processing during sentence comprehension. However, it remains unclear whether syntactic processing also declines or whether it remains constant as people age. In the present study, 26 younger adults and 20 older adults were recruited and matched in terms of working memory, general intelligence, verbal intelligence and fluen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Psychology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00243