Two studies, involving a total of nearly 500 Ss, were conducted to determine the
mechanisms by which processing speech contributes to the relations between adult age and …

Three experiments examined adult age differences in memory for new associations between
unrelated words. On the indirect (word-stem completion) test, age differences appeared …

Speech processing involves rapid decoding and construction of meaning from a transitory
acoustic signal. Because older adults have been found to be slower in performing many …

A new method was developed to investigate the degree to which age differences in strategy
production mediate age differences in paired-associate recall. Participants were instructed …

The authors conducted a dual-task study to examine age differences in speech processing
under varying loads. Younger and older adults listened to and immediately recalled spoken …

Abstract Used 3 groups (aged 17–31 yrs, 39–52 yrs, and 58–85 yrs) of 36 Ss each to study
the relationship of age to 3 types of to-be-remembered tasks (words, sentences, and S …

The present study examined how aging and divided attention influence memory for item and
associative information. Older adults and younger adults working under full-attention …

This chapter describes a detailed theory of perception, production and memory for language
and applies it to the problem of cognitive decline in old age. Altering a single parameter in …

Tested 64 males and females in their 20s and 60s, with high school and doctoral-level
educations, on a variety of memory tasks. There were sizable age decrements in word recall …

Younger and older adults listened to and immediately recalled short passages of speech
that varied in the rate of presentation and in the degree of linguistic and prosodic cuing …