Cognition, language and aging
Age-related changes in cognitive and language functions have been extensively researched over the past half-century. The older adult represents a unique population for studying cognition and language because of the many challenges that are presented with investigating this population, including indi...
| Otros Autores: | , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company
2016
[2016] |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423463106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cognition, Language and Aging; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; 1. Cognition, language, and aging: An introduction; Summary; References; 2. The Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon: Who, what, and why; What is a TOT, and why does it occur?; Theoretical perspectives of older adults' TOT incidence; Factors affecting TOT incidence; TOT resolution; Proper name TOTs in Alzheimer's disease; Current and future directions; Conclusion; References; 3. Age-related effects on language production. A combined psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic persp; Introduction
- Psycholinguistic accounts of language productionCognitive functions affecting the process of message production; Psycholinguistic investigations assessing age-related variations in linguistic processing; Age-related effects on microlinguistic aspects of message production; Age-related effects on lexical processing; Age-related effects on grammatical processing; Age-related effects on macrolinguistic aspects of message production; Effects of aging on the neural networks subserving the process of linguistic production; Conclusions and future directions; References
- 4. Aging effects on discourse productionAging effects on discourse production; Interactive-construction model of discourse; Microlinguistic analysis; Lexical diversity; Measuring lexical diversity; Lexical diversity in older adults; Lexical diversity and cognition; Macrolinguistic analysis; Coherence; Measures of coherence; Coherence and aging; Coherence and aging: Cognition; Future directions; Conclusions; References; 5. Language comprehension in aging; Processes involved in sentence comprehension; Sentence-related variables
- Effects of sensory acuity on sentence comprehension ability in older adultsOlder adults as language experts; Conclusions; References; 6. The role of cognition on age-related changes in language, memory, and mental models; Factors that affect older adults' language comprehension; Situation models and event models; Aging and the use of situation models during text comprehension; Activating and inhibiting inferences; Integrating and reasoning about information in memory; Event segmentation; Conclusion; References; 7. Reading in normally aging adults; Aging and word recognition during reading
- Aging, reading and memoryConclusion; References; 8. Cognitive and linguistic processes among oldest old persons: Heterogeneity, methodological challe; Heterogeneity, change, and diversity among the oldest old: Impact on daily life; Heterogeneity within "old age"; Developmental changes and diversity of cognitive outcomes among the oldest old; Individual differences: Diversity of outcomes in later life; Methodological challenges assessing cognitive change among the oldest old; Lifespan psychosocial resources and cognition: Opportunities via later life investigations
- Dynamic processes across the lifespan
