Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorKemper, Susan
dc.contributor.authorMcDowd, Joan M.
dc.contributor.authorMetcalf, Kim
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Chiung-Ju
dc.date.accessioned2011-12-07T19:15:50Z
dc.date.available2011-12-07T19:15:50Z
dc.date.issued2008-05
dc.identifier.citationKemper, S., McDowd, J., Metcalf, K., & Liu, C.-J. (2008). Young and older adults’ reading of distracters. Educational Gerontology, 34, 489-502. PM#2396579 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03601270701835858
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/8564
dc.description.abstractEye-tracking technology was employed to examine young and older adults' performance in the reading with distraction paradigm. Distracters of 1, 2, and 4 words that formed meaningful phrases were used. There were marked age differences in fixation patterns. Young adults' fixations to the distracters and targets increased with distracter length. This suggests that they were attempting to integrate the distracters with the sentence and had more and more difficulty doing so as the distracters increased in length. Young adults did have better comprehension of the sentences than older adults, and they also had better recognition memory for target words and distracters.
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)
dc.titleYoung and Older Adults’ Reading of Distracters
dc.typeArticle
kusw.kuauthorKemper, Susan
kusw.kuauthorMcDowd, Joan
kusw.kuauthorMetcalf, Kim
kusw.kuauthorLiu, Chiung-Ju
kusw.kudepartmentDepartment of Psychology
kusw.kudepartmentUniversity of Kansas Medical Center
kusw.oastatusfullparticipation
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/03601270701835858
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
kusw.oapolicyThis item meets KU Open Access policy criteria.
dc.rights.accessrightsopenAccess


Files in this item

Thumbnail

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record