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Negation comprehension and aging: Th...

Margolin, Sara J.

Negation comprehension and aging: The role of inhibition and the impact of compensation during reading.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : 單行本
正題名/作者:	Negation comprehension and aging: The role of inhibition and the impact of compensation during reading./
作者:	Margolin, Sara J.
面頁冊數:	89 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: B, page: 6351.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-09B.
標題:	Gerontology. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=3281564
ISBN:	9780549237815

Negation comprehension and aging: The role of inhibition and the impact of compensation during reading.
Margolin, Sara J.

Negation comprehension and aging: The role of inhibition and the impact of compensation during reading. - 89 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: B, page: 6351.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 2007.

The present research investigated the influence of several factors on young and older adults' reading comprehension of real-world texts. The first experiment determined the effects of negation on comprehension of written sentences and examined the level of text representation at which negation most severely impacts comprehension. The second experiment assessed the effectiveness of a specific compensatory strategy, the use of a negation symbol, in comprehending negation. Using online, activation, and content measures of comprehension, participants read sentences modified from fiction novels. Participants read sentences one word at a time at their own pace, then immediately named a probe word that was verbatim from the sentence, related to the sentence, or unrelated. Participants then answered a comprehension question about the sentence they had read. The results showed that negation affected comprehension in both age groups, such that sentence reading times were faster for negative sentences, probe naming times were slower following negative sentences, and comprehension accuracy was lower for negative sentences, relative to non-negative sentences. Negation equivalently slowed verbatim and related probes' naming times, suggesting that negation had similar effects on the situation model and surface levels of representation. However, these effects of negation were not exacerbated with age, although older adults' comprehension overall was poorer than young adults. With respect to compensation, providing the negation symbol during reading did not facilitate the processing of negation specifically but instead encouraged readers to focus more attention on all of the sentences. These findings suggest that age and inhibition are less important in influencing negation comprehension than working memory. Furthermore, the lack of age deficits in negation comprehension has positive implications for older adults' functioning in a world where negation is present in many contexts, such as prescription labels and road signs.

ISBN: 9780549237815Subjects--Topical Terms:

168436
Gerontology.

Negation comprehension and aging: The role of inhibition and the impact of compensation during reading.
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