How much and how fast: rapid processing of spoken language in later adulthood.

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Summary

Although recall performance of the older adults showed a disproportionate decline when speech rate was increased, older adults, as well as the younger adults, were able to recall sentences of increasing propositional densities and the tendency to recall a greater proportion of main ideas than details was enhanced by increased propositional density.

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Published
1986-12-01
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Psychology, Recall, Cognition, Young adult, Developmental psychology

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