Biologically based senescence processes and cumulative opportunities for experience
collectively give rise to profound changes in cognition in later adulthood, the trajectories of …

The ability to correctly interpret complex syntax and long sentences is gradually impaired as
people age. Typical ageing is characterised by working memory deficits, which are thought …

Reading picture books to pre-literate children is associated with improved language
outcomes, but the causal pathways of this relationship are not well understood. The present …

We report an investigation of aging and individual differences in binding information during
sentence understanding. An age-continuous sample of adults (N= 91), ranging from 18 to 81 …

We used eye movement measures of paragraph reading to examine how word frequency
and word predictability impact first-language (L1) and second-language (L2) word …

We report a study testing the validity of the three most commonly used indicators of lifetime
exposure to print fiction, namely a self-report scale, an author recognition test (ART), and …

The current study reports the effects of accumulating contextual constraints on neural indices
of lexico-semantic processing (ie, effects of word frequency and orthographic neighborhood) …

Effective language understanding is crucial to maintaining cognitive abilities and learning
new information through adulthood. However, age-related declines in working memory …

Purpose To understand complex expository text, readers often engage in metacognitive
comprehension monitoring. Metacognitive monitoring is assumed to rely on basic cognitive …

The current study investigated how a contextual list signal influences comprehenders'
inference generation of upcoming discourse relations and whether individual differences in …