title: Tracking reading: dual task costs of oral reading for young versus older adults.
abstract: A digital pursuit rotor was used to monitor oral reading costs by time-locking tracking performance to the auditory wave form produced as young and older adults were reading out short paragraphs. Multilevel modeling was used to determine how paragraph-level predictors of length, grammatical complexity, and readability and person-level predictors such as speaker age or working memory capacity predicted reading and tracking performance. In addition, sentence-by-sentence variation in tracking performance was examined during the production of individual sentences and during the pauses before upcoming sentences. The results suggest that dual tasking has a greater impact on older adults' reading comprehension and tracking performance. At the level of individual sentences, young and older adults adopt different strategies to deal with grammatically complex and propositionally dense sentences.
authors: Department of Psychology, Gerontology Center, University of Kansas, 3090 DHDC, 1000 Sunnyside Ave., Lawrence, KS, 66045, USA, SKemper@KU.edu.
authors: Susan
authors: S
authors: Kemper
authors: Daniel
authors: D
authors: Bontempo
authors: RaLynn
authors: R
authors: Schmalzried
authors: Whitney
authors: W
authors: McKedy
authors: Bruno
authors: B
authors: Tagliaferri
authors: Doug
authors: D
authors: Kieweg
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D056344:Executive Function; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011930:Reaction Time; D011932:Reading; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D055815:Young Adult