Studies of word production in patients with Alzheimer's disease have identified the age of
acquisition of words as an important predictor of retention or loss, with early acquired words …

Les adultes plus âgés se plaignent communément d'avoir de plus en plus de difficultés à se
souvenir d'événements qui sont survenus dans un passé récent. Dans le cadre de tâches en …

Naming difficulty is common in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the nature of this problem is
not well established. The authors investigated the presence of semantic breakdown and the …

The effects of orthographically overlapping prime words in a word fragment completion task
(modified from SM Smith & DR Tindell, 1997) were studied in younger and older adults …

Although sensitive detection of pathological cognitive aging requires accurate information
about the trajectory of normal cognitive aging, prior research has revealed inconsistent …

This paper describes a Hebrew naming test that consists of 48 line drawings ordered by
word frequency. The initial validation phase included 48 young adults (ages 20–28), 48 old …

Few studies have examined verb naming in normal aging, although decline in the ability to
name nouns has been well documented. In this study, we examined longitudinal …

Elderly people experience more failures in word form access (tip-of-the-tongue
events,'TOTs') than young people. There is general agreement that TOTs are signs of …

This review of 25 studies of the picture-naming accuracy of normal aging individuals shows
that an age-related decline in picture naming is an inconsistent finding. Naming …

Verbal fluency tasks are commonly used in the assessment of dementia, although less is
known about fluency characteristics in normal aging individuals. Category and letter fluency …