Researchers investigate why older people read more slowly

(National Research University Higher School of Economics) One of the most obvious changes that comes with ageing is that people start doing things more slowly. Numerous studies have shown that ageing also affects language processing. Even neurologically healthy people speak, retrieve words and read more slowly as they get older. But is this slowdown inevitable? Researchers from the Higher School of Economics have been working to answer this question in their article 'No evidence for strategic nature of age-related slowing in sentence processing'.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news