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Federmeier, Kara D.; Kutas, Marta; Schul, Rina – Brain and Language, 2010
During sentence comprehension, older adults are less likely than younger adults to predict features of likely upcoming words. A pair of experiments assessed whether such differences would extend to tasks with reduced working memory demands and time pressures. In Experiment 1, event-related brain potentials were measured as younger and older adults…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Cues, Prediction

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