The relationship between age, verbal working memory, and language comprehension

Article Abstract:

A structural modeling approach was used to examine the relationship between age, verbal working memory (vWM), and 3 types of language measures that are online syntactic processing, sentence comprehension, and text comprehension. The results indicated that the relationship among age, vWM, and comprehensive differs depending on the measure of language processing and support the view that individual differences in vWM do not affect individuals' online syntactic processing.

United States, Psychological aspects, Aged, Elderly, Short-term memory, Verbal behavior, Verbal behaviour

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Aging and medical adherence: The use of automatic processes to achieve effortful things

Article Abstract:

Research was studied whether forming detailed implementation plans for achieving a goal improved older adults' adherence to a health behavior, such as diabetes. In conclusion, the results indicate that implementation intentions can facilitate older adults' performance of important medical self-care tasks in naturalistic settings over sustained periods of time and do not show age-related decline.

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Eye-fixation patterns of high- and low-span young and older adults: down the garden path and back again

Article Abstract:

Two experiments conducted to compare high-and low-span older adults with high- and low-span young adults, are discussed. The results are presented with reference to theories of the role of working memory in sentence processing.

Comparative analysis, Vision, Vision tests

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