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Direct linkPeelle, Jonathan E.; Wingfield, Arthur – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2005
When presented with several time-compressed sentences, young adults' performance improves with practice. Such adaptation has not been studied in older adults. To study age-related changes in perceptual learning, the authors tested young and older adults' ability to adapt to degraded speech. First, the authors showed that older adults, when equated…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Older Adults, Adjustment (to Environment)
