ArticleCognition2023
Efficiency of spoken word recognition slows across the adult lifespan.
Article in Cognition, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Continuous developmental changes in word recognition and language learning across early childhood.eLife · 2026Article
- Real-Time Spoken Word Recognition in Adults With and Without Developmental Language Disorder: The Role of Early Language Skills.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2026Article
- Decoupling speech processing from time.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2026Review
- From real-time measures to real world differences: New [and old] statistical approaches to individual differences in real-time language processing.Brain research · 2025Review
- Fundamental dimensions of real-time word recognition in challenging listening conditions exhibit within-subject stability and link to outcomes.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2025Article
- The development of lexical processing: Real-time phonological competition and semantic activation in school age children.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2025Article
- British version of the Iowa test of consonant perception.JASA express letters · 2024Article
- The development of real-time spoken and word recognition derives from changes in ability, not maturation.Cognition · 2024Article
- Underlying dimensions of real-time word recognition in cochlear implant users.Nature communications · 2024Article
- The role of inhibitory control in spoken word recognition: Evidence from cochlear implant users.Language, cognition and neuroscience · 2024Article
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Abstract
Spoken word recognition is a critical hub during language processing, linking hearing and perception to meaning and syntax. Words must be recognized quickly and efficiently as speech unfolds to be successfully integrated into conversation. This makes word recognition a computationally challenging process even for young, normal hearing adults. Older adults often experience declines in hearing and cognition, which could be linked by age-related declines in the cognitive processes specific to word recognition. However, it is unclear whether changes in word recognition across the lifespan can be accounted for by hearing or domain-general cognition. Participants (N = 107) responded to spoken words in a Visual World Paradigm task while their eyes were tracked to assess the real-time dynamics of word recognition. We examined several indices of word recognition from early adolescence through older adulthood (ages 11-78). The timing and proportion of eye fixations to target and competitor images reveals that spoken word recognition became more efficient through age 25 and began to slow in middle age, accompanied by declines in the ability to resolve competition (e.g., suppressing sandwich to recognize sandal). There was a unique effect of age even after accounting for differences in inhibitory control, processing speed, and hearing thresholds. This suggests a limited age range where listeners are peak performers.
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