PMID- 21060066
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110404
LR  - 20240317
IS  - 1758-5368 (Electronic)
IS  - 1079-5014 (Print)
IS  - 1079-5014 (Linking)
VI  - 66
IP  - 2
DP  - 2011 Mar
TI  - Tracking sentence planning and production.
PG  - 160-8
LID - 10.1093/geronb/gbq079 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVE: To assess age differences in the costs of language planning and 
      production. METHODS: A controlled sentence production task was combined with 
      digital pursuit rotor tracking. Participants were asked to track a moving target 
      while formulating a sentence using specified nouns and verbs and to continue to 
      track the moving target while producing their response. The length of the 
      critical noun phrase (NP) as well as the type of verb provided were manipulated. 
      RESULTS: The analysis indicated that sentence planning was more costly than 
      sentence production, and sentence planning costs increased when participants had 
      to incorporate a long NP into their sentence. The long NPs also tended to be 
      shifted to the end of the sentence, whereas short NPs tended to be positioned 
      after the verb. Planning or producing responses with long NPs was especially 
      difficult for older adults, although verb type and NP shift had similar costs for 
      young and older adults. DISCUSSION: Pursuit rotor tracking during controlled 
      sentence production reveals the effects of aging on sentence planning and 
      production.
FAU - Kemper, Susan
AU  - Kemper S
AD  - Department of Psychology and Gerontology Center, 3090 DHDC, 1000 Sunnyside Ave., 
      University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA. skemper@ku.edu
FAU - Bontempo, Daniel
AU  - Bontempo D
FAU - McKedy, Whitney
AU  - McKedy W
FAU - Schmalzried, RaLynn
AU  - Schmalzried R
FAU - Tagliaferri, Bruno
AU  - Tagliaferri B
FAU - Kieweg, Doug
AU  - Kieweg D
LA  - eng
GR  - P30 DC-005803/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/United States
GR  - P30 HD-002528/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States
GR  - R01 AG-025906/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States
GR  - P30 DC005803/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/United States
GR  - R01 AG025906/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
DEP - 20101108
PL  - United States
TA  - J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci
JT  - The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences
JID - 9508483
SB  - IM
MH  - Aged
MH  - Aging/*psychology
MH  - *Attention
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Memory, Short-Term
MH  - *Motion Perception
MH  - Orientation
MH  - *Psychomotor Performance
MH  - Reaction Time
MH  - *Semantics
MH  - Speech Production Measurement
MH  - *Verbal Behavior
MH  - Vocabulary
MH  - Young Adult
PMC - PMC3041973
EDAT- 2010/11/10 06:00
MHDA- 2011/04/05 06:00
PMCR- 2012/03/01
CRDT- 2010/11/10 06:00
PHST- 2010/11/10 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/11/10 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/04/05 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2012/03/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - gbq079 [pii]
AID - 10.1093/geronb/gbq079 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2011 Mar;66(2):160-8. doi: 
      10.1093/geronb/gbq079. Epub 2010 Nov 8.