{"pk":25786,"title":"Childhood SES affects anticipatory language comprehension in college-aged adults","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Childhood socioeconomic status (SES) has a broad impact\non cognitive development including nearly every aspect of\nlanguage ability. In infancy, lower SES is associated with\ndelays in real-time language processing skills, but it is not\nknown whether or how this relationship carries into\nadulthood. We explore these questions by assessing the\ntimecourse of anticipatory sentence interpretation in a\nvisual-world eye-tracking task in college-aged adults from\nhigher and lower SES backgrounds. While there were only\nsubtle SES-related timing differences in anticipation of a\nsentence-final target noun, we found SES-related differences\nin looks to competitor items on the screen. Particularly,\nindividuals from higher SES backgrounds showed relatively\nmore looks to action-related competitors just prior to onset\nof the target noun. These findings suggest that early SES\ninfluences the dynamics of lexical activation during sentence\nprocessing even in adulthood and highlight the importance\nof early lexical input and experience for adult language skill","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Sentence comprehension"},{"word":"Language Processing"},{"word":"Eye movements"},{"word":"Socioeconomic Status"},{"word":"individual\ndifferences"},{"word":"Language Acquisition"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1kg9z33w","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Melissa","middle_name":"","last_name":"Troyer","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, San Diego","department":""},{"first_name":"Arielle","middle_name":"","last_name":"Borovsky","name_suffix":"","institution":"Florida State University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25786/galley/15410/download/"}]}