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Aging and syntactic representations : evidence of preserved syntactic priming and lexical boost
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Hardy, Sophie, Messenger, Katherine and Maylor, Elizabeth A. (2017) Aging and syntactic representations : evidence of preserved syntactic priming and lexical boost. Psychology and Aging, 32 (6). pp. 588-596. doi:10.1037/pag0000180 ISSN 0882-7974.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pag0000180
Abstract
Young adults can be primed to re-use a syntactic structure across otherwise unrelated utterances but it is not known whether this phenomenon exists in older adults. In a dialogue task, young and older adults described transitive verb target pictures after hearing active or passive sentences. Both groups were more likely to produce a passive sentence following a passive prime than following an active prime (indicating syntactic priming), and this effect increased when the prime and target involved the same verb (indicating lexical boost). These effects were statistically equivalent in young and older adults, suggesting that the syntactic representations underlying sentence production are unaffected by normal aging.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Aging -- Psychological aspects | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Psychology and Aging | ||||||
Publisher: | American Psychological Association | ||||||
ISSN: | 0882-7974 | ||||||
Official Date: | 1 September 2017 | ||||||
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Volume: | 32 | ||||||
Number: | 6 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 588-596 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1037/pag0000180 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 5 May 2017 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 January 2018 |
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