BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:17920-47f07b639ad41e8bb37eaf9a61666cab@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260514T191149Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260116T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260116T103000 SUMMARY:Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Victoria Cano Sánchez DESCRIPTION:\nRecent research in psycholinguistics has largely focused o n adults under thirty\, often assuming that language abilities remain st able after acquisition\, a view now challenged by emerging evidence (Gri ffin and Spieler\, 2005). This research addresses that gap by investigat ing how healthy aging affects language comprehension in Spanish\, with a particular focus on predictive processing and agreement computation.\n\ nThe work is framed within two complementary theoretical perspectives: t he resource based hypothesis (Salthouse\, 1996\; Wlotko et al.\, 2012)\, which attributes age-related decline to reduced cognitive resources\, a nd the experience-based hypothesis (Horn and Cattell\, 1967\; Federmeier and Kutas\, 2005\; Payne and Stine-Morrow\, 2016)\, which emphasizes th e compensatory role of lifelong linguistic knowledge. To evaluate these accounts\, a series of eye-tracking experiments were conducted with youn g and older adults\, examining how working memory capacity\, executive c ontrol (inhibition and monitoring and updating)\, and language experienc e (vocabulary size and reading habits) shape lexical and morphosyntactic prediction.\n\nResults indicate that lexical prediction is largely pres erved across the lifespan\, although it unfolds differently: younger adu lts anticipate upcoming words more efficiently\, whereas older adults sh ow increased integration difficulty with unexpected items. In contrast\, morphosyntactic prediction shows clearer age-related decline\, with old er adults exhibiting heightened sensitivity to ungrammaticality and agre ement attraction errors. Cognitive mechanisms contribute differently acr oss linguistic domains and age groups: working memory supports early lex ical prediction and later error resolution\, monitoring and updating are crucial for agreement processing in older adults\, and inhibitory contr ol influences both domains. Importantly\, language experience exerts a s trong compensatory effect\, particularly in older adults\, supporting th e experience-based hypothesis for lexical prediction\, while resource li mitations appear more critical for morphosyntactic agreement.\n\nOverall \, this research broadens our understanding of how cognitive abilities a nd linguistic experience interact to support comprehension across the ad ult lifespan\, highlighting both preserved and declining aspects of lang uage processing in healthy aging\n\nFor more details: https://events.la. psu.edu/event/cls-speaker-series-victoria-cano-sanchez/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Recent research in psycholinguistics has largely focused on adults under thirty, often assuming that language abilities remain stable after acquisition, a view now challenged by emerging evidence (Griffin and Spieler, 2005). This r esearch addresses that gap by investigating how healthy aging affects la nguage comprehension in Spanish, with a particular focus on predictive p rocessing and agreement computation.

The work is framed within two complementary theoretical perspectives: the resource based hypothesis ( Salthouse, 1996; Wlotko et al., 2012), which attributes age-related decl ine to reduced cognitive resources, and the experience-based hypothesis (Horn and Cattell, 1967; Federmeier and Kutas, 2005; Payne and Stine-Mor row, 2016), which emphasizes the compensatory role of lifelong linguisti c knowledge. To evaluate these accounts, a series of eye-tracking experi ments were conducted with young and older adults, examining how working memory capacity, executive control (inhibition and monitoring and updati ng), and language experience (vocabulary size and reading habits) shape lexical and morphosyntactic prediction.

Results indicate that lexi cal prediction is largely preserved across the lifespan, although it unf olds differently: younger adults anticipate upcoming words more efficien tly, whereas older adults show increased integration difficulty with une xpected items. In contrast, morphosyntactic prediction shows clearer age -related decline, with older adults exhibiting heightened sensitivity to ungrammaticality and agreement attraction errors. Cognitive mechanisms contribute differently across linguistic domains and age groups: working memory supports early lexical prediction and later error resolution, mo nitoring and updating are crucial for agreement processing in older adul ts, and inhibitory control influences both domains. Importantly, languag e experience exerts a strong compensatory effect, particularly in older adults, supporting the experience-based hypothesis for lexical predictio n, while resource limitations appear more critical for morphosyntactic a greement.

Overall, this research broadens our understanding of how cognitive abilities and linguistic experience interact to support compr ehension across the adult lifespan, highlighting both preserved and decl ining aspects of language processing in healthy aging

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