ArticleNeuropsychologia2017
Event-related brain potentials reveal age-related changes in parafoveal-foveal integration during sentence processing.
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- General cognitive processing for orthographic discrepancy engages foveal attention during sentence comprehension.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- Aging-Related Dissociation of Spatial and Temporal N400 in Sentence-Level Semantic Processing: Evidence From Source Analyses.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Connecting and considering: Electrophysiology provides insights into comprehension.Psychophysiology · 2022Article
- Semantic Processing in Healthy Aging and Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review of the N400 Differences.Brain sciences · 2020Review
- What's "left"? Hemispheric sensitivity to predictability and congruity during sentence reading by older adults.Neuropsychologia · 2019Article
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Abstract
Normative aging is associated with deficits in visual acuity and cognitive control that impact the allocation of visual attention, but little is known about how those changes affect information extraction and integration during visual language comprehension in older adulthood. In the current study, we used a visual hemi-field flanker RSVP paradigm with event-related brain potentials to study how older readers process fine-grained aspects of semantic expectancy in parafoveal and foveal vision. Stimuli consisted of high constraint sentences with expected, unexpected but plausible, or anomalous parafoveal target words, as well as low constraint sentences with neutral but expected target words. Older adults showed graded parafoveal N400 effects that were strikingly similar to younger readers, indicating intact parafoveal semantic processing. However, whereas young adults were able to use this parafoveal pre-processing to facilitate subsequent foveal viewing, resulting in a reduced foveal N400 effect, older adults were not able to. Instead, older adults re-processed the semantics of words in foveal vision, resulting in a larger foveal N400 effect relative to the young. Collectively, our findings suggest that although parafoveal semantic processing per se is preserved in aging, there exists an age-related deficit in the ability to rapidly integrate parafoveal and foveal visual semantic representations.
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