The ageing neighbourhood: phonological density in naming

JK Gordon, JC Kurczek - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Ageing affects the ability to retrieve words for production, despite maintenance of lexical
knowledge. In this study, we investigate the influence of lexical variables on picture naming …

Association between greater cerebellar network connectivity and improved phonemic fluency performance after exercise training in older adults

J Won, Y Faroqi-Shah, DD Callow, A Williams… - The Cerebellum, 2021 - Springer
Little is known about the effects of exercise training (ET) on lexical characteristics during
fluency task and its association with cerebellum functional connectivity. The purposes of this …

Structural priming is determined by global syntax rather than internal phrasal structure: Evidence from young and older adults.

SM Hardy, L Wheeldon, K Segaert - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Structural priming refers to the tendency of speakers to repeat syntactic structures across
sentences. We investigated the extent to which structural priming persists with age and …

Single and multiple object naming in healthy ageing

E Belke, AS Meyer - Language and Cognitive Processes, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
We compared the performance of young (college-aged) and older (50+ years) speakers in a
single object and a multiple object naming task and assessed their susceptibility to semantic …

Differences in subjective memory impairment, depressive symptoms, sleep, and physical activity in African American and Asian American elderly

M Lee, JH Nam, E Yi, A Bhimla, J Nelson, GX Ma - Brain Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: Subjective memory impairment (SMI) is associated with negative health
outcomes including mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease. However, ethnic …

Priming sentence production in older adults: evidence for preserved implicit learning

J Lee, G Man, A Keen, N Castro - Aphasiology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Structural priming-speakers' unconscious tendency to echo previously encountered
message-structure mappings-is thought to reflect the processes of implicit language learning …

Being old doesn't mean acting old: How older users interact with spoken dialog systems

M Wolters, K Georgila, JD Moore… - ACM Transactions on …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Most studies on adapting voice interfaces to older users work top-down by comparing the
interaction behavior of older and younger users. In contrast, we present a bottom-up …

Cognitive writing process characteristics in Alzheimer's disease

C Meulemans, M Leijten, L Van Waes… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In this article, we explore if the observation of writing behavior can assist in the screening
and follow-up of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and mild dementia due to Alzheimer's …

Is old age just a number in language skills? Language performance and its relation to age, education, gender, cognitive screening, and dentition in very old finnish …

S Alantie, J Tyrkkö, T Makkonen, K Renvall - Journal of Speech, Language …, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: This study reports on how very old (VO) Finnish people without dementia perform
in the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB) and two verbal fluency tasks and which demographic …

First learned words are not forgotten: Age-of-acquisition effects in the tip-of-the-tongue experience

E Navarrete, M Pastore, R Valentini, F Peressotti - Memory & cognition, 2015 - Springer
A large body of evidence indicates that the age at which a word is acquired predicts the time
required to retrieve that word during speech production. Here we explored whether age of …