Background: Older adults process speech differently, but it is not yet clear how aging affects
different levels of processing natural, continuous speech, both in terms of bottom-up acoustic …

In the absence of any neuropsychiatric condition, older adults may show declining
performance in several cognitive processes and among them, in retrieving and producing …

The relationship between structural and functional brain networks has been characterised
as complex: the two networks mirror each other and show mutual influence but they also …

Among all aspects of the linguistic and communicative competence, pragmatics seems
especially vulnerable in aging, due also to cognitive decline. However, pragmatics has …

Compensation has long been recognized as a cornerstone of successful late-life
development, figuring prominently in behavioral research and theory on cognitive aging …

Purpose When speakers retrieve words, they do so extremely quickly and accurately—both
speed and accuracy of word retrieval are compromised in persons with aphasia (PWA). This …

Healthy aging leads to complex changes in the functional network of speech processing in a
noisy environment. The dual‐route neural architecture has been applied to the study of …

Abstract Language processing relies on a left-lateralized fronto-temporal brain network. How
this network emerges ontogenetically remains debated. We asked whether frontal language …

Older adults typically show decline in a variety of cognitive functions including inhibitory
control and language production, with corresponding age-related increases in fMRI …

Semantic memory representations are overall well-maintained in aging whereas semantic
control is thought to be more affected. To explain this phenomenon, this study aims to test …