Dissociable electrophysiological measures of natural language processing reveal differences in speech comprehension strategy in healthy ageing

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 11; no. 1; p. 4963
• Main Authors: Broderick, Michael P., Di Liberto, Giovanni M., Anderson, Andrew J., Rofes, Adrià, Lalor, Edmund C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 02.03.2021; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/378/2612; 631/378/2649; Aging; Cognitive ability; Computational neuroscience; EEG; Electrophysiology; Humanities and Social Sciences; Information processing; Language; multidisciplinary; Older people; Predictions; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Semantics; Sensory integration; Speech

Healthy ageing leads to changes in the brain that impact upon sensory and cognitive processing. It is not fully clear how these changes affect the processing of everyday spoken language. Prediction is thought to play an important role in language comprehension, where information about upcoming words...