The present article reviews theories of memory and aging over the past 50 years.
Particularly notable is a progression from early single-mechanism perspectives to complex …

In the late 1970s Gillian Cohen surveyed research on the effects of aging on language and
concluded that “geriatric psycholinguistics is virtually an unexplored territory”(1979: 412). In …

Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when
we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world …

Cognitive aging is a flourishing area of research. A significant amount of new data, a number
of new theoretical notions, and many new research issues have been generated in the past …

Using Brinley plots, this meta-analysis provides a quantitative examination of age
differences in eight verbal span tasks. The main conclusions are these:(a) there are age …

Attention plays an essential role in the construction of the mental models necessary to make
sense of ongoing events. In this article, we consider the implications of temporary inattention …

Research on cognitive aging seems to have three primary goals: first, to determine the
extent to which the diversity of observed behavioral changes that occur with advancing age …

Abstract Effects of normal aging on the use of sentence context information during language
comprehension were examined by measuring younger and older adults' event‐related …

Latency and eye movement measures were used to examine the effects of aging, clutter,
and luminance on visual search for traffic signs embedded in digitized images of driving …

Objective: To assess discourse in patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Methods:
The authors asked patients with progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA), patients with …