The Effect of Mood on Predictive Sentence Processing by Older Adults
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16915775 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xinmiao Liu (0000-0001-9732-3428, Beijing Foreign Studies University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SAGE Open (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2158-2440 • E-ISSN: 2158-2440 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/21582440211015683 |
| OpenAlex | W3169892645 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 50 |
This study examined the effect of mood on predictive sentence processing by older adults. A self-paced reading task was implemented among a group of younger adults and older adults to measure their performance in online sentence processing. Half of the sentences were highly predictable, whereas the other half were lowly predictable. Music was used to induce positive or negative mood. Results show that in the positive mood condition, highly predictable sentences were processed more efficiently than lowly predictable sentences in both older and younger adults, but no significant age difference was found in the effect of predictability. In the negative mood condition, younger adults processed highly predictable sentences more efficiently than lowly predictable sentences, but there was no significant difference in reading times between the different types of sentences in older adults. The findings suggest that predictive sentence processing might be inhibited by negative mood in older adults. Practical implications of the findings are discussed
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Linguistics · Mood · Natural language processing · Predictability · Psychiatry · Sentence · Sentence processing · Clinical Psychology · Computer Science · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |