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 …

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 …

Although healthy aging is generally characterized by declines in both brain structure and
function, there is variability in the extent to which these changes result in observable …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

It is generally held that language functions are the least likely of the neurobehavioral
functions to deteriorate with aging. Compared to perceptual and time-constrained motor …

This chapter focuses on the effects of aging on the process of language production from a
psycholinguistic, and neurolinguistic perspective. The first section of the chapter provides a …