Electrophysiological evidence for preserved primacy of lexical prediction in aging

Neuropsychologia
S DaveTamara Y Swaab

Abstract

Young adults show consistent neural benefits of predictable contexts when processing upcoming words, but these benefits are less clear-cut in older adults. Here we disentangle the neural correlates of prediction accuracy and contextual support during word processing, in order to test current theories that suggest that neural mechanisms underlying predictive processing are specifically impaired in older adults. During a sentence comprehension task, older and younger readers were asked to predict passage-final words and report the accuracy of these predictions. Age-related reductions were observed for N250 and N400 effects of prediction accuracy, as well as for N400 effects of contextual support independent of prediction accuracy. Furthermore, temporal primacy of predictive processing (i.e., earlier facilitation for successful predictions) was preserved across the lifespan, suggesting that predictive mechanisms are unlikely to be uniquely impaired in older adults. In addition, older adults showed prediction effects on frontal post-N400 positivities (PNPs) that were similar in amplitude to PNPs in young adults. Previous research has shown correlations between verbal fluency and lexical prediction in older adult readers, suggesting...Continue Reading

Citations

Oct 9, 2018·Neuropsychology, Development, and Cognition. Section B, Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition·Spyridoula CheimariouJean K Gordon
Feb 21, 2021·Experimental Brain Research·Roberta A AllegrettaGiulia Galli
Aug 7, 2021·Neuropsychology, Development, and Cognition. Section B, Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition·Evelyn MilburnRebecca Hayes

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