Task demands and sentence reading comprehension among healthy older adults: The complementary roles of cognitive reserve and working memory

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dc.contributor.authorMartín-Aragoneses, María Teresa
dc.contributor.authorMejuto, Gema
dc.contributor.authorRío, David del
dc.contributor.authorLópez-Higes, Ramón
dc.contributor.authorFernandes, Sara M.
dc.contributor.authorRodrigues, Pedro F. S.
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-02T10:25:53Z
dc.date.available2023-03-02T10:25:53Z
dc.date.issued2023-03-01
dc.description.abstractAgeing entails different functional brain changes. Education, reading experience, and leisure activities, among others, might contribute to the maintenance of cognitive performance among older adults and are conceptualised as proxies for cognitive reserve. However, ageing also conveys a depletion of working memory capacity, which adversely impacts language comprehension. This study investigated how cognitive reserve proxies and working memory jointly predict the performance of healthy older adults in a sentence reading comprehension task, and how their predictive value changes depending on sentence structure and task demands. Cognitively healthy older adults (n = 120) completed a sentence–picture verification task under two conditions: concurrent viewing of the sentence and picture or their sequential presentation, thereby imposing greater demands on working memory. They also completed a questionnaire on cognitive reserve proxies as well as a verbal working memory test. The sentence structure was manipulated by altering the canonical word order and modifying the amount of propositional information. While the cognitive reserve was the main predictor in the concurrent condition, the predictive role of working memory increased under the sequential presentation, particularly for complex sentences. These findings highlight the complementary roles played by cognitive reserve and working memory in the reading comprehension of older adults.pt_PT
dc.identifier.citationMartín-Aragoneses, M. T., Mejuto, G., Río, D., Fernandes, S. M., Rodrigues, P. F. S., & López-Higes, R. (2023). Task demands and sentence reading comprehension among healthy older adults: The complementary roles of cognitive reserve and working memory. Brain Sciences, 13(3), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13030428. Repositório Institucional UPT. http://hdl.handle.net/11328/4697pt_PT
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13030428pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn2076-3425 (Electronic)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11328/4697
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institutept_PT
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/13/3/428pt_PT
dc.rightsopen accesspt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectCognitive reservept_PT
dc.subjectOlder adultspt_PT
dc.subjectSentence comprehensionpt_PT
dc.subjectSentence–picture verificationpt_PT
dc.subjectTask demandspt_PT
dc.subjectWorking memorypt_PT
dc.titleTask demands and sentence reading comprehension among healthy older adults: The complementary roles of cognitive reserve and working memorypt_PT
dc.typejournal articlept_PT
degois.publication.firstPage1pt_PT
degois.publication.issue3pt_PT
degois.publication.lastPage20pt_PT
degois.publication.titleBrain Sciencespt_PT
degois.publication.volume13pt_PT
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person.affiliation.nameI2P - Instituto Portucalense de Psicologia
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