Previous functional imaging studies that compared activity patterns in older and younger
adults during nonlinguistic tasks found evidence for 2 phenomena: older participants usually …

Susan Kemper A debate about the role of working memory in language processing has
become center-most in psycholinguistics (Caplan & Waters, in press; Just & Carpenter …

This study investigated effects of healthy ageing and of non-verbal attentional control on
speech production. Young and older speakers participated in a picture-word interference …

Several structural imaging studies have revealed atrophy in regions of the corpus callosum
due to normal aging. We examined the performance of young and senior adults on 2 …

Aim The purpose of the present study was to investigate if performance in a 30‐s verbal
semantic fluency task (ie animal naming) across five elderly aged groups (60–64; 65–69; 70 …

This study compared the grasping performance of 24 younger (20-30 years of age) and 24
older subjects (60-70 years of age) in a typical laboratory task (L) where movements were …

Twenty‐four young and 24 middle‐aged academics carried out a language recognition task
in which sentences were presented that made either a high or a low demand on working …

This study addresses the issue of cognitive slowing in the elderly by examining the time
course of automatic lexical access. College-aged subjects typically show a brief rise time …

Motor cognitive functions and their neurophysiology evolve and degrade along the lifespan
in a dramatic fashion. Current models of how the brain adapts to aging remain inspired …

Objectives This study investigated the best predictor to capture age-related changes in
passive-sentence production using a constrained sentence-production paradigm and …