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Stronger left-hemisphere lateralization in older versus younger adults while processing conventional metaphors.
Laterality. 2014; 19(6):705-17.L

Abstract

Thirty younger (age 20-30) and 30 older (age 69-85) right-handed Hebrew speakers performed a semantic judgement task while processing literal word pairs and conventional metaphors, presented in the divided visual field paradigm. Older adults responded more accurately to conventional metaphors in the right visual field/left hemisphere versus the left visual field/right hemisphere, whereas younger adults showed no lateralization. Vocabulary scores cancelled group differences in lateralization. An additional lexical decision task replicated the main finding of left-hemisphere lateralization in older but not in younger participants. We suggest that accumulated knowledge increases left-hemisphere lateralization on tasks of language comprehension in older relative to younger adults.

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Kavé G
a Department of Education and Psychology , The Open University , Ra'anana 43537 , Israel.
Gavrieli R
No affiliation info available
Mashal N
No affiliation info available

MeSH

AdultAgedAged, 80 and overAgingCerebrumFemaleFunctional LateralityHumansJudgmentMaleMetaphorPattern Recognition, VisualPhotic StimulationReaction TimeReadingSemanticsYoung Adult

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Language

eng

PubMed ID

24708103

Citation

Kavé, Gitit, et al. "Stronger Left-hemisphere Lateralization in Older Versus Younger Adults While Processing Conventional Metaphors." Laterality, vol. 19, no. 6, 2014, pp. 705-17.
Kavé G, Gavrieli R, Mashal N. Stronger left-hemisphere lateralization in older versus younger adults while processing conventional metaphors. Laterality. 2014;19(6):705-17.
Kavé, G., Gavrieli, R., & Mashal, N. (2014). Stronger left-hemisphere lateralization in older versus younger adults while processing conventional metaphors. Laterality, 19(6), 705-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2014.905584
Kavé G, Gavrieli R, Mashal N. Stronger Left-hemisphere Lateralization in Older Versus Younger Adults While Processing Conventional Metaphors. Laterality. 2014;19(6):705-17. PubMed PMID: 24708103.
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