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Tracking Reading: Dual Task Costs of Oral Reading for Young Versus Older Adults
Kemper, Susan Bontempo, Daniel E. Schmalzried, RaLynn Cheri McKedy, Whitney Tagliaferri, Bruno Kieweg, Douglas
Kemper, Susan
Bontempo, Daniel E.
Schmalzried, RaLynn Cheri
McKedy, Whitney
Tagliaferri, Bruno
Kieweg, Douglas
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Abstract
A digital pursuit rotor was used to monitor oral reading costs by time-locking tracking performance to the auditory wave form produced as young and older adults were reading out short paragraphs. Multilevel modeling was used to determine how paragraph-level predictors of length, grammatical complexity, and readability and person-level predictors such as speaker age or working memory capacity predicted reading and tracking performance. In addition, sentence-by-sentence variation in tracking performance was examined during the production of individual sentences and during the pauses before upcoming sentences. The results suggest that dual tasking has a greater impact on older adults’ reading comprehension and tracking performance. At the level of individual sentences, young and older adults adopt different strategies to deal with grammatically complex and propositionally dense sentences.
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2014-02-01
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Springer US
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Aging, Linguistic processing, Dual task demands, Reading
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Kemper, S., Bontempo, D., Herman, R., McKedy, W., Schmalzried, R., Tagliaferri, B., & Kieweg, D. (in press). Tracking Reading: Dual Task Costs while Reading. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. (2014)