The ability to correctly interpret complex syntax and long sentences is gradually impaired as people age. Typical ageing characterised by working memory deficits, which are thought play an important role in determining whether can be comprehended correctly, neurodegenerative conditions such Alzheimer's disease (AD) exacerbate these limitations. Furthermore, declines processing speed appear caus...

This research concerns the distinction between processes in sentence comprehension and those in sentence memory. Comprehension was monitored by timing subjects while they decided whether a sentence was true or false of their knowledge of the world. The memory process was tapped by examining subjects' incidental memory for the sentences they had previously verified. The verification latencies in...

Abstract We report two offline and eye-movement experiments examining non-native (L2) sentence processing during after reanalysis of temporarily ambiguous sentences like “While Mary dressed the baby laughed happily”. Such cause at main clause verb (“laughed”), as noun phrase (“the baby”) may initially be misanalysed direct object subordinate (“dressed”). The revealed that L2ers have difficulty ...