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Older adults demonstrate reduced integration of parafoveal information and target identification, indicating specific age-related deficits.
= 71.5 years) as they read sentences containing an unpredictable target word. The boundary paradigm was used to manipulate parafoveal previews, which were either contextually plausible or implausible and either preserved or masked target orthographic information. Older and younger readers showed comparable effects of preview plausibility on skipping and early fixation measures, indicating preserved extraction of semantic parafoveal information in older age. However, age-related reduction in both preview benefits and costs was observed for orthographic-based preview effects. The findings suggest that older adults show a specific deficit in trans-saccadic integration of parafoveal and foveal information during reading. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).
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