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Effects of adults aging on word encoding in reading Chinese: evidence from disappearing text

The effect of aging on the process of word encoding for fixated words and words presented to the right of the fixation point during the reading of sentences in Chinese was investigated with two disappearing text experiments. The results of Experiment 1 showed that only the 40-ms onset disappearance...

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Autores principales: Liu, Zhifang, Pan, Yun, Tong, Wen, Liu, Nina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5244883/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28123911
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2897
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author Liu, Zhifang
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description The effect of aging on the process of word encoding for fixated words and words presented to the right of the fixation point during the reading of sentences in Chinese was investigated with two disappearing text experiments. The results of Experiment 1 showed that only the 40-ms onset disappearance of word n disrupted young adults’ reading performance. However, for old readers, the disappearance of word n caused disruptions until the onset time was 120 ms. The results of Experiment 2 showed that the disappearance of word n + 1 did not cause disruptions to young adults, but these conditions made old readers spend more time reading a sentence compared to the normal display condition. These results indicated a reliable aging effect on the process of word encoding when reading Chinese, and that the encoding process in the preview frame was more susceptible to normal aging compared to that in the fixation frame. We propose that sensory, cognitive, and specific factors related to the Chinese language are important contributors to these age-related differences.
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spelling pubmed-52448832017-01-25 Effects of adults aging on word encoding in reading Chinese: evidence from disappearing text Liu, Zhifang Pan, Yun Tong, Wen Liu, Nina PeerJ Cognitive Disorders The effect of aging on the process of word encoding for fixated words and words presented to the right of the fixation point during the reading of sentences in Chinese was investigated with two disappearing text experiments. The results of Experiment 1 showed that only the 40-ms onset disappearance of word n disrupted young adults’ reading performance. However, for old readers, the disappearance of word n caused disruptions until the onset time was 120 ms. The results of Experiment 2 showed that the disappearance of word n + 1 did not cause disruptions to young adults, but these conditions made old readers spend more time reading a sentence compared to the normal display condition. These results indicated a reliable aging effect on the process of word encoding when reading Chinese, and that the encoding process in the preview frame was more susceptible to normal aging compared to that in the fixation frame. We propose that sensory, cognitive, and specific factors related to the Chinese language are important contributors to these age-related differences. PeerJ Inc. 2017-01-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5244883/ /pubmed/28123911 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2897 Text en ©2017 Liu et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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Liu, Zhifang
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Effects of adults aging on word encoding in reading Chinese: evidence from disappearing text
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title_short Effects of adults aging on word encoding in reading Chinese: evidence from disappearing text
title_sort effects of adults aging on word encoding in reading chinese: evidence from disappearing text
topic Cognitive Disorders
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5244883/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28123911
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2897
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