How do task demands and aging affect lexical prediction during online reading of natural texts?
Sally Andrews, Aaron Veldre, Roslyn Wong, Lili Yu, Erik D. Reichle · Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition · 2022
) in intermixed filler passages. The results suggested that the young adults, but not the older adults, engaged anticipatory prediction strategies to detect semantic errors in the proofreading condition, but neither age group showed any evidence of costs of prediction failures. Rather, both groups showed facilitated reading times for unexpected words that appeared in a high constraint within-sentence position. These findings suggest that predictability effects for natural texts reflect partial, probabilistic expectancies rather than anticipatory prediction of specific words. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).