Pagán, Ascensión and Degno, Federica and Milledge, Sara and Kirkden, Richard D. and White, Sarah J. and Liversedge, Simon Paul and Paterson, Kevin B. (2024) Aging and Word Predictability during Reading: Evidence from Eye Movements and Fixation-Related Potentials. [DataSet]

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The use of context to facilitate the processing of words is recognized as a hallmark of skilled reading. This capability is also hypothesized to change with older age because of cognitive changes across the lifespan. However, research investigating this issue using eye movements or event-related potentials (ERPs) has produced conflicting findings. Specifically, whereas eye movement studies report larger context effects for older than younger adults (see Zhang et al., 2022), ERP findings suggest that context effects are diminished or delayed for older readers (see Payne & Silcox, 2019). Crucially, these contrary findings may reflect methodological differences, including use of unnatural sentence displays in ERP research. To address these limitations, we used a co-registration technique to record eye movements (EMs) and fixation-related potentials (FRPs) simultaneously while 44 young (18-30 years) and 30 older (65+ years) adults read sentences containing a target word that was strongly or weakly predicted by prior context. Eye movement analyses were conducted over all data (full EM dataset) and only data matching FRPs. FRPs were analysed to capture early and later components 70-900 ms following fixation-onset on target words. Both eye movement datasets and early FRP time-windows showed main effects of age group and context, while the full EM dataset and later FRP time-windows revealed larger context effects for older adults. We argue that, by using co-registration to address limitations of earlier ERP research, our experiment provides compelling complementary evidence from eye movements and FRPs that older adults rely more on context to integrate word during reading.

Research / Data Type:	Collection - various types
Depositing User:	Christopher Waddington
Date Deposited:	03 Feb 2025 14:29
Revision:	9
URI:	https://uclandata.uclan.ac.uk/id/eprint/521
Additional details Additional details Creators: Creators Email ORCID Pagán, Ascensión UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Degno, Federica UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Milledge, Sara SMilledge@uclan.ac.uk UNSPECIFIED Kirkden, Richard D. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED White, Sarah J. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Liversedge, Simon Paul SPLiversedge@uclan.ac.uk UNSPECIFIED Paterson, Kevin B. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Schools: School of Psychology and Humanities* > Psychology* Date: 29 January 2024 Date type: Publication Status: Published Publisher: OSF Contact email address: rdmsupport@uclan.ac.uk Last Modified: 03 Feb 2025 14:29

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