Our results support behavioral research demonstrating that language comprehension is preserved in old age and are consistent with a complex picture in which language comprehension is spared in the context of declining aspects of language production (for reviews, see Burke et al. 2000; Burke and Shafto 2004; Shafto et al. 2007; Burke and Shafto 2008).
Future empirical investigations on the process of informed consent will further our knowledge of comprehension and voluntary participation in the context of genetic and genomic research involving complicated issues that have implications for individuals and their communities.
Further, analysis and comprehension skills are better taught in the context of a particular content domain (Willingham, 2007).
We further predict 2) that patterns of word position effects will remain stable across the life span, reflecting preserved sentence comprehension but that 3) we will see these in the context of age-related deterioration of neural structures critical for comprehension in younger adults, so that 4) preserved sentence comprehension in old age will require some form of neural compensation.
Furthermore, the use of visualizations has been studied, for example, in the context of improving comprehension of jury instructions and in facilitating the making of complex decisions connected with dispute resolution.
Due to the adopted methodology and theoretical background in its construction, the TRC-n and the TRC-e test forms will have important implications for practice in the context of reading comprehension assessment.
In the context of humor comprehension, the P600 might reflect resolving the incongruity of the punch line and establishing coherence with the preceding context.
Furthermore, this region shows hypometabolism [Nestor et al., 2003] and atrophy [Gorno-Tempini et al., 2004] in patients with nonfluent aphasia, a syndrome in which the ability to communicate fluently is lost in the context of preserved comprehension.
