The Role of Lexical Status and Individual Differences for Perceptual Learning in Younger and Older Adults

Conclusions Implicit learning is maintained with age across different learning conditions but remains stronger when lexically biasing information is available. We find that receptive vocabulary is relevant for learning in both types of learning tasks, suggesting the importance of vocabulary knowledge for adapting to ambiguities in speech.
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research