Older adults' ability to perceive, comprehend, and produce language has been an area of
interest to researchers in recent years. One of the core questions under study has been …

Language in old age has been an active research area since early experimental
investigations in cognitive aging (eg, Craik & Masani, 1967; Riegel & Riegel, 1964). This is …

As we age, sensory and cognitive changes occur that create challenges for language
processing. At the same time, we gain increased experience and expertise with language …

When older adults are asked to identify problems in their daily cognitive functioning, certain
aspects of language production are at the top of their list. They rate word finding failures and …

It istempting to postulate that language development across the lifespan is U-shaped such
that language" regression" mirrors language acquisition (Jackson, 1958; Jakobson …

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 …

There is a lot of evidence that sentence comprehension ability declines in normally aging
adults. This chapter reviews variables that contribute to age-related declines in …

Publisher Summary Many of the broad models of cognitive aging are simply too general to
account for the diverse range of data. General slowing cannot readily account for processing …

It is very difficult to tell, especially in everyday life, when language comprehension leaves off
and when processes involved in remembering begin. That is, remembering written or …

There has been an upsurge of interest in the aging process as it affects cognition. Most
research attention has been focused on memory and relatively little has been focused on …