To predict or not to predict: Age-related differences in the use of sentential context

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 975-988

  Wlotko, Edward W ^a   Federmeier, Kara D ^a   Kutas, Marta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Frontal anterior negativity; Language; N400; Sentential context

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; READING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84874469240     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0029206     Document Type: Article

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