"Risky reading" in older adults: Investigating the underlying mechanisms and consequences for comprehension

老年人的“危险阅读”：调查理解的潜在机制和后果

• 批准号: 1928521
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1928521
• 关键词: Risky; reading; older; adults; Investigating

It is argued that older readers (who have greater experience with reading) compensate for their slower processing of text by employing a "risky" reading strategy in which they are more likely than younger adults to infer the identities of upcoming words using prior context and only partial word formation.To investigate the depth of processing at word level, Taminder will examine age-related differences in incomplete processing of the meanings of individual words. The approach will be to investigate the relationship between risky reading in older adults and depth of word processing (as indexed by detection of semantic anomalies), as well as the influence of information structure on this process, that is, whether the anomalous word is in focus or not. The key methodology will be eye-tracking during reading, combined with measures of anomaly detection, and measures of interpretation.

有人认为，年长的读者（拥有丰富的阅读经验）通过采用“冒险”的阅读策略来弥补他们处理文本的速度较慢，在这种策略中，他们比年轻人更有可能使用先前的上下文和仅部分构词来推断即将出现的单词的身份。为了研究单词级别的处理深度，Taminder 将检查单个单词含义不完整处理中与年龄相关的差异。该方法将调查老年人的危险阅读与文字处理深度（通过检测语义异常来索引）之间的关系，以及信息结构对此过程的影响，即异常单词是否处于焦点。关键方法是阅读期间的眼球追踪，结合异常检测措施和解释措施。