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Age differences in on-line syntactic processing.

E A Stine-Morrow1, S Ryan, J S Leonard

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham 03824, USA. eals@christa.unh.edu

Experimental Aging Research
|November 25, 2000
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Older adults struggle with complex sentence structures, impacting reading comprehension due to working memory limitations. Younger adults adapt better to challenging object-relative sentence constructions.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Aging
  • Sentence Processing

Background:

  • Subject-relative and object-relative sentence constructions present varying cognitive loads.
  • Previous research suggests potential age-related differences in processing complex syntax.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare reading time and comprehension of subject-relative versus object-relative sentences in younger and older adults.
  • To investigate the impact of age on processing syntactically complex sentences.

Main Methods:

  • Participants: Younger and older adult readers.
  • Task: Reading sentences with subject-relative and object-relative structures.
  • Measures: Reading time and comprehension accuracy.

Main Results:

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  • Younger adults showed differential reading times for object-relative constructions, indicating higher processing load.
  • Older adults exhibited lower comprehension for object-relative sentences compared to subject-relative ones.
  • No age differences were found in comprehension of simpler subject-relative sentences.

Conclusions:

  • Age-related declines in working memory capacity may underlie difficulties in comprehending complex sentences.
  • Findings challenge modularity views of aging, suggesting broader cognitive resource limitations affect language processing.
  • Working memory limitations impact responsiveness to textual demands, compromising sentence comprehension in older adults.