Thirty-two younger adults aged 18 to 28 years (M = 22.66, SD = 3.04) and 32 older adults aged 60–80 years (M = 70.47, SD = 4.59) participated. All participants were native English speakers. The younger adults were students from the University of Cambridge and the older adults were healthy, community-dwelling volunteers. The groups were matched with respect to years of formal education (t < 1) and the older adults outperformed the younger adults on the Vocabulary subtest of the Shipley Institute of Living Scale (Shipley, 1986; t(62) = 3.47, p < .005, d = 0.881). Older adults were additionally screened for cognitive impairment using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA; Nasreddine et al., 2005) and all participants performed within the normal range (M = 28.03, SD = 1.03). A summary of demographic information can be found in Table 1. Participants in all experiments provided written informed consent prior to beginning the experiment using methods approved by the Cambridge Psychology Research Ethics Committee, and received monetary compensation at a rate of £7.50 per hour for participation.