Aging and individual differences in binding during sentence understanding: Evidence from temporary and global syntactic attachment ambiguities

Cognition

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 157-173

  Payne, Brennan R ^a   Grison, Sarah ^a   Gao, Xuefei ^a   Christianson, Kiel ^a   Morrow, Daniel G ^a   Stine Morrow, Elizabeth A L ^a  

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

Author keywords

Aging; Print exposure; Reading; Relative clause attachment; Sentence processing; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LIFESPAN; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RESPONSE TIME; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888393922     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.10.005     Document Type: Article

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