Sentences with phrase «words than young adults»
People in their sixties learned 60 percent fewer words than young adults in their twenties who spent equal time and effort on the task.
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When the researchers asked adults to rate the children's productions for how much they looked like English words, they found that the adults gave higher ratings, on average, to the productions of older prephonological spellers than to the productions of younger prephonological spellers.
Additionally, young - adult dyslexic readers maintained high connectivity to brain regions involved in phonology, suggesting that they continue to rely on effortful «sounding out» strategies into adulthood rather than transitioning to more automatic, visual - based strategies for word recognition.
Some writers start with a series of two - or three - word phrases that describe them, like this one from Amanda Hocking, the paranormal romance young - adult fiction author who sold more than $ 2 million in ebooks in one year.
In healthy older adults, the picture superiority effect was found to be greater than it was for younger adults, in comparison to recognition for words, which was disadvantaged for older adults.