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Event-Related Potentials Reveal Increased Dependency on Linguistic Context Due to Cognitive Aging
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la Roi, Amélie; Sprenger, Simone A.; Hendriks, Petra – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Whereas executive functions are known to be closely tied to successful language processing in children and younger adults, less is known about how age-related decline in these functions affects language processing in elderly adults. Because the abilities to use linguistic context and resolve potential ambiguities such as between an idiom's…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Executive Function, Language Processing, Figurative Language