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Direct linkGitit Kavé; Maayan Sayag; Mira Goral – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Previous research has demonstrated conflicting findings concerning orthographic access in older age. The current study examines whether older adults rely more heavily on stored knowledge while spelling, through testing of word concreteness. Forty-one younger (age 20-29), 41 middle age (age 45-55), and 40 healthy older adults (age 70-80) spelled 60…
Descriptors: Spelling, Young Adults, Adults, Older Adults
Follmer, D. Jake; Sperling, Rayne A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Emerging evidence suggests that executive function plays an important role in adult readers' understanding of text. This study examined the contribution of executive function to comprehension of expository science text among adult readers, as well as the role of vocabulary ability in the relation between executive function and text comprehension.…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Adults, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary
