The present study was an examination of how exposure to print affects sentence processing
and memory in older readers. A sample of older adults (N= 139; Mean age= 72) completed a …

The facilitation of word processing by sentence context reflects the interaction between the
build-up of message-level semantics and lexical processing. Yet, little is known about how …

The standard view in cognition is that the identification of visually presented words, up to
and including semantic activation, is automatic in various senses. The perspective favored …

In the current study, late Chinese–English bilinguals performed a facial expression
identification task with emotion words in the task-irrelevant dimension, in either their first …

There has been a longstanding debate about whether lexical and semantic processing of
words is serial or parallel. We addressed this debate using partially valid cueing, where one …

Disagreement exists regarding the functional locus of semantic interference of distractor
words in picture naming. This effect is a cornerstone of modern psycholinguistic models of …

The present study used event-related potentials (ERPs) to determine the degree to which
people can process words while devoting central attention to another task. Experiments 1–4 …

Does aging increase the reliance on central attention to carry out tasks, even when those
tasks do not need it? To test the hypothesis of over-reliance on central attention (ORCA), we …

Background/Study Context: The present study examined the effect of training on age
differences in performing a highly practiced task using the psychological refractory period …

Segmental and suprasegmental phonological awareness (PA) are closely related to word
reading skills in native speakers learning to read an alphabetic script as used in English …