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    "pk": 27182,
    "title": "Age differences in language comprehension during driving:\nRecovery from prediction errors is more effortful for older adults",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Prior research yielded conflicting findings regarding\nwhether older adults show a greater processing cost than\nyounger adults when encountering unpredicted semantic\nmaterial during language processing. Here, we\ninvestigated whether age-related differences in recovery\nfrom prediction error are influenced by increased\ndemands on working memory. We used a dual task\ndesign: a primary sentence comprehension task in which\nsemantic predictions were fulfilled or violated, and a\nconcurrent driving task, thought to limit working memory\nresources in resolving prediction errors. In the dual task,\nolder participants showed an increase in comprehension\naccuracy for sentences with semantic violations, while\ndemonstrating a decrease in driving accuracy. Thus, when\nworking memory resources were limited, older adults\nfocused exclusively on the language task and neglected\nthe driving task. This could be related to an age-related\nincrease in generating semantic predictions, or to a\ngeneral inability among older adults to divide attention\nbetween two cognitively demanding tasks.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "aging"
        },
        {
            "word": "semantic expectancy"
        },
        {
            "word": "dual tasking"
        },
        {
            "word": "attention allocation"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Posters: Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2v12n3h6",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Katja",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Häuser",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Saarland University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Vera",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Demberg",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Saarland University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jutta",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kray",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Saarland University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T10:00:00-08:00",
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}