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Dikker, Suzanne; Pylkkanen, Liina – Brain and Language, 2011
There exists an increasing body of research demonstrating that language processing is aided by context-based predictions. Recent findings suggest that the brain generates estimates about the likely physical appearance of upcoming words based on syntactic predictions: words that do not physically look like the expected syntactic category show…
Descriptors: Stimulation, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Prediction
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Griffin, Zenzi M.; Spieler, Daniel H. – Brain and Language, 2006
Research on adult age differences in language production has traditionally focused on either the production of single words or the properties of language samples. Older adults are more prone to word retrieval failures than are younger adults (e.g., Burke, MacKay, Worthley, & Wade, 1991). Older adults also tend to produce fewer ideas per utterance…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Language Processing, Adults, Age Differences