Situation model updating in young and older adults
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Lara N Hoeben Mannaert; Katinka Dijkstra
- Source
- International Journal of Behavioral Development, 45(5):45, 389-396. SAGE Publications Ltd
- Subject
- Cognitive aging
Social Psychology
05 social sciences
050105 experimental psychology
Education
Text comprehension
Domain (software engineering)
Comprehension
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Developmental Neuroscience
Situation model
Developmental and Educational Psychology
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Life-span and Life-course Studies
Psychology
Resilience (network)
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Cognitive psychology
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0165-0254
Over the past decade or so, developments in language comprehension research in the domain of cognitive aging have converged on support for resilience in older adults with regard to situation model updating when reading texts. Several studies have shown that even though age-related declines in language comprehension appear at the level of the surface form and text base of the text, these age differences do not apply to the creation and updating of situation models. In fact, older adults seem more sensitive to certain manipulations of situation model updating. This article presents a review of theories on situation model updating as well how they match with research on situation model updating in younger and older adults. Factors that may be responsible for the resilience of language comprehension in older age will be discussed as well as avenues for future research.