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doi:10.22028/D291-31886
Title: | Age differences in language comprehension during driving: Recovery from prediction errors is more effortful for older adults |
Author(s): | Häuser, Katja Demberg, Vera Kray, Jutta |
Language: | English |
Title: | Computational foundations of cognition : 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2017) : London, United Kingdom, 26-29 July 2017 : Volume 3 |
Startpage: | 2156 |
Endpage: | 2161 |
Publisher/Platform: | Curran Associates, Inc. |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Place of publication: | Red Hook, NY |
Title of the Conference: | CogSci 2017 |
Place of the conference: | London, United Kingdom |
Publikation type: | Conference Paper |
Abstract: | Prior research yielded conflicting findings regarding whether older adults show a greater processing cost than younger adults when encountering unpredicted semantic material during language processing. Here, we investigated whether age-related differences in recovery from prediction error are influenced by increased demands on working memory. We used a dual task design: a primary sentence comprehension task in which semantic predictions were fulfilled or violated, and a concurrent driving task, thought to limit working memory resources in resolving prediction errors. In the dual task, older participants showed an increase in comprehension accuracy for sentences with semantic violations, while demonstrating a decrease in driving accuracy. Thus, when working memory resources were limited, older adults focused exclusively on the language task and neglected the driving task. This could be related to an age-related increase in generating semantic predictions, or to a general inability among older adults to divide attention between two cognitively demanding tasks. |
URL of the first publication: | https://cogsci.mindmodeling.org/2017/papers/0411/paper0411.pdf |
Link to this record: | hdl:20.500.11880/29735 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-31886 |
ISBN: | 978-1-5108-4661-6 |
Date of registration: | 24-Sep-2020 |
Faculty: | HW - Fakultät für Empirische Humanwissenschaften und Wirtschaftswissenschaft |
Department: | HW - Psychologie |
Professorship: | HW - Prof. Dr. Jutta Kray |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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