Experimentally disentangling what's beneficial about elderspeak from what's not

Article Abstract:

Older adults react negatively to high pitch, short sentences and slow speaking rate, according to research investigating how manipulations of prosody and other elements of elderspeak may interact to affect comprehension in older adults. This research used three experiments to systematically test the efficacy of speech accommodations to aging. The exaggerated prosody of elderspeak seems to bring no positive benefit to older people in relation to their performance on the referential communication task, and could actually negatively affect their performance.

Telecommunications systems

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Younger and older adults' on-line processing of syntactically ambiguous sentences

Article Abstract:

The language processing ability of older adults is affected by ageing, though some linguistic abilities remain intact. Processing of sentences with relative clauses and main verbs by older and young adults shows a variation in the extent to which older adults are affected by a decline in language processing ability. Both processing speed and working memory may be involved and older adults tend to take longer to read sentences than do younger adults.

Research, Psycholinguistics, Memory in old age, Old age memory

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Eye movements of young and older adults while reading with distraction

Article Abstract:

Eye-tracking technology was used to examine young and older adults' online performance in the reading in distraction paradigm. Online measures including probability of fixation, fixation duration, and number of fixations to distracting text revealed no age differences in text processing, though young adults did have an advantage over older adults in overall reading time and text comprehension.

Middle aged persons, Analysis, Young adults, Eye, Eye movements, Inhibition, Inhibition (Psychology)

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