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The Effects of Sustained Literacy Engagement on Cognition and Sentence Processing Among Older Adults
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Study shows sustained reading improves verbal working memory and episodic memory in older adults. Enhanced conceptual integration in sentence processing also observed.

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The Effects of Sustained Literacy Engagement on Cognition and Sentence Processing Among Older Adults
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Study shows sustained reading improves verbal working memory and episodic memory in older adults. Enhanced conceptual integration in sentence processing also observed.
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Frontiers in Psychology

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Addictive Behaviors

Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience

Cognition

Cognitive Science

Comparative Psychology

Consciousness Research

Cultural Psychology

Decision Neuroscience

Eating Behavior

Educational Psychology

Emotion Science

Environmental Psychology

Evolutionary Psychology

Forensic and Legal Psychology

Health Psychology

Human Developmental Psychology

Media Psychology

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