Purpose The study examined age-related differences in the use of semantic context and in
the effect of semantic competition in spoken sentence processing. We used offline (response …

Older adults have been found to use context to facilitate word recognition at least as
efficiently as young adults. This may pose a conundrum, as context use is based on …

Studies of spoken word recognition have reliably shown that both younger and older adults'
recognition of acoustically degraded words is facilitated by the presence of a linguistic …

To examine changes in semantic memory organization and use during aging, we recorded
event-related potentials as younger and older adults listened to sentences ending with the …

Purpose To use eye tracking to investigate age differences in real-time lexical processing in
quiet and in noise in light of the fact that older adults find it more difficult than younger adults …

The effortfulness hypothesis implies that difficulty in decoding the surface form, as in the
case of age-related sensory limitations or background noise, consumes the attentional …

The main objective of this study was to investigate the extent to which hearing impairment
influences the duration of sentence processing. An eye-tracking paradigm is introduced that …

Purpose In this study, the authors investigated how acoustic distortion affected younger and
older adults' use of context in a lexical decision task. Method The authors measured lexical …

Receptive language (eg, reading) is largely preserved in the aging brain, and semantic
processes in particular may continue to develop throughout the lifespan. We investigated the …

Background/Study Context: Older adults, especially those with reduced hearing acuity, can
make good use of linguistic context in word recognition. Less is known about the effects of …