eyetracking data for aging and anticipation

This study investigated how ageing impacts anticipation during comprehension, considering that both language experience and cognitive factors modulate prediction during comprehension. We investigated whether older adults can utilize gender-marked adjectives to predict the target noun during Hindi sentence comprehension. Two visual world paradigm studies (Experiment 1 & 2) were conducted, where young and older adults listened to sentences containing a target word while looking at a visual display containing the target object and three distractors. The sentences consisted of adjectives which were highly associated with the target object. We measured anticipatory gaze towards the target object before it was mentioned in the sentence indexing prediction using adjectives. The results from both experiments showed that older adults exhibited anticipatory gaze towards the target noun soon after hearing the adjective, which did not differ from that of young adults