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Direct linkDagerman, Karen Stevens; MacDonald, Maryellen C.; Harm, Michael W. – Cognitive Science, 2006
Older and younger adults' abilities to use context information rapidly during ambiguity resolution were investigated. In Experiments 1 and 2, younger and older adults heard ambiguous words (e.g., fires) in sentences where the preceding context supported either the less frequent or more frequent meaning of the word. Both age groups showed good…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Older Adults, Sentences, Simulation
