Anticipatory prediction in older readers.
It is well-established that skilled, young-adult readers rely on predictive processing during online language comprehension; however, fewer studies have investigated whether this extends to healthy, older adults (60 + years). The aim of the present research was to assess whether older readers make u...
| Published in: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 7; pp. 2312 - 2332 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=189137938&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 189137938 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0090502X MEG jtl: Memory & Cognition issn: 0090502X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2025 vid: 53 iid: 7 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 189137938 10.3758/s13421-025-01712-1 ppf: 2312 ppct: 20 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.1MB tig: atl: Anticipatory prediction in older readers. aug: au: Wong, Roslyn Veldre, Aaron affil: https://ror.org/0384j8v12 School of Psychology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia https://ror.org/01sf06y89 School of Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia https://ror.org/03f0f6041 Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia su: Reading Psycholinguistics Forecasting Research funding Phonological awareness Eye movement measurements Descriptive statistics Experimental design Simulation methods in education Data analysis software Thought & thinking Eye movements sug: subj: Reading Psycholinguistics Forecasting Research funding Phonological awareness Eye movement measurements Descriptive statistics Experimental design Simulation methods in education Data analysis software Thought & thinking Eye movements keyword: Aging Prediction Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Psychology Self-paced reading Aging Prediction Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Psychology Self-paced reading ab: It is well-established that skilled, young-adult readers rely on predictive processing during online language comprehension; however, fewer studies have investigated whether this extends to healthy, older adults (60 + years). The aim of the present research was to assess whether older readers make use of lexical prediction by investigating whether they demonstrate processing costs for incorrect predictions in a controlled experimental design. The eye movements of a sample of older adults (60–86 years) were recorded as they read strongly and weakly constraining sentences containing a predictable word or an unpredictable alternative that was either semantically related or unrelated. To determine whether predictive processing depends on the stimuli presentation format, a second experiment presented the same materials in a self-paced reading task in which each word of a sentence appears one at a time at the readers' own pace. Older adults showed processing benefits for expected input on eye-movement measures of reading. They also showed processing costs for unexpected input across both methodologies, but only when semantically unrelated to the best completion. Taken together, the results suggest that the use of predictive processes remains relatively preserved with age. The implications of these findings for understanding whether prediction is a fundamental component of online language comprehension are discussed. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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