The age invariance of working memory measures and noninvariance of producing complex syntax

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (1):102-103 (1999)
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In challenging current conceptions of the role of working memory in sentence processing, Caplan & Waters consider studies comparing young and older adults on sentence processing. This commentary raises two challenges to Caplan & Waters's conclusions: first, working memory tasks appear to be age invariant. Second, the production of complex syntactic constructions appears not to be age invariant.

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