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Research Article

Congruent Prosody Reduces Cognitive Effort in Memory for Spoken Sentences: A Pupillometric Study with Young and Older Adults

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Received 18 Jun 2021, Accepted 18 Nov 2023, Published online: 07 Dec 2023

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