According to an influential account of aging effects on reading, older adults (65+ years)
employ a more “risky” reading strategy compared to young adults (18–30 years), in which …

Objectives Substantial evidence indicates that older readers of alphabetic languages (eg,
English and German) compensate for age-related reading difficulty by employing a more …

Older adults are thought to compensate for slower lexical processing by making greater use
of contextual knowledge, relative to young adults, to predict words in sentences …

Older adults experience greater difficulty compared to young adults during both alphabetic
and nonalphabetic reading. However, while this age-related reading difficulty may be …

ABSTRACT Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN), a task in which participants must name a
series of items as rapidly as possible, has been very useful as a measure of cognitive …

Large-scale changes in text spacing, such as removing the spaces between words, disrupt
reading more for older (65+ years) than younger (18–30 years) adults. However, it is …

Abstract Words are recognized most efficiently by young adults when fixated at an optimal
viewing position (OVP), which for English is between a word's beginning and middle letters …