The rise and fall of word retrieval across the lifespan.

G Kavé, A Knafo, A Gilboa - Psychology and Aging, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
Picture-naming performance for 48 black-and-white drawings was investigated in 1,145
Hebrew speakers, ages 5–86. Both a linear and a curvilinear quadratic model fit the data …

Change in object naming ability during adulthood

LT Connor, A Spiro III, LK Obler… - The Journals of …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Using longitudinal data on the Boston Naming Test (Kaplan, Goodglass, & Weintraub, 1983)
collected over 20 years from healthy individuals aged 30 to 94, we examined change in …

Age-related differences in naming latency

JC Thomas, JL Fozard, NC Waugh - The American Journal of Psychology, 1977 - JSTOR
Older people seem to have difficulty learning new materials, perhaps because it takes them
longer to retrieve relevant encoding information from memory. To assess the effects of age …

Naming ability across the adult life span

R Au, P Joung, M Nicholas, LK Obler… - Aging …, 1995 - Taylor & Francis
Longitudinal performance on the Boston Naming Test (BNT) was evaluated in 53 normal
subjects aged 30 to 79 who were each tested three times over a 7-year span. Naming …

Effects of aging on the retrieval of common and proper names.

EA Maylor - 1995 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract provide further data on name retrieval in the elderly and, more specifically, to
compare common and proper names/Ss aged 54–85 [yrs] performed 3 speeded name …

Word frequency and age of acquisition as determiners of picture-naming latency

JB Carroll, MN White - Quarterly journal of experimental …, 1973 - journals.sagepub.com
In multiple-regression analysis of picture-naming latencies from an experiment modelled on
Oldfield and Wingfield's (1965), with 94 stimuli and 37 adult subjects, two word frequency …

Last in, first to go: Age of acquisition and naming in the elderly

C Hodgson, AW Ellis - Brain and language, 1998 - Elsevier
Twenty-six elderly subjects (ages 71–86) and 10 young adult subjects (ages 22–33) named
206 black-and-white line drawings of objects. Although the two groups did not differ …

Retrieving names in old age: Short-and (very) long-term effects of repetition

EA Maylor - Memory & Cognition, 1998 - Springer
Two experiments are reported that examine the effects of repetition on name retrieval in
younger adults (in their 50s and 60s) and older adults (in their 70s and 80s). In Experiment …

Age and age of acquisition: An evaluation of the cumulative frequency hypothesis

CM Morrison, KW Hirsh, T Chappell… - European Journal of …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
An important determinant of picture and word naming speed is the age at which the names
were learned (age of acquisition). Two related interpretations of these effects are that they …

Ageing and lexical access to common and proper names in picture naming

M Evrard - Brain and language, 2002 - Elsevier
The question of whether lexical access for proper names is more impaired by ageing than
lexical acess for other words is controversial. The aim of the present investigation was to …