Aging - Semantics - Sentence

Question 1

Sommers & Danielson, 1999

Answer 1

• Meaningful sentential context facilitates SWR to a greater degree for older compared to younger adults

Question 2

Dagerman, MacDonald, & Harm, 2006

Answer 2

• Older and younger adults’ use of context varies with measurement technique. In off-line tasks, both older and younger adults used context to disambiguate noun-verb homophones. However, in online tasks (CMP), older adults did not demonstrate rapid use of context

Question 3

Federmeier, Van Patton, Schwartz, & Kutas 2003

Answer 3

• In a study in which older and younger adults listened to sentences for comprehension, no delays in N400 (indicating semantic processing) were evident. These results contrast from other studies, but the authors attribute them to using words embedded in natural speech