Language is a crucial and complex lifelong faculty, underpinned by dynamic interactions
within and between specialized brain networks. Whereas normal aging impairs specific …

During hearing, acoustic signals travel up the ascending auditory pathway from the cochlea
to auditory cortex; efferent connections provide descending feedback. In human listeners …

Semantic cognition is central to understanding of language and the world and, unlike many
cognitive domains, is thought to show little age-related decline. We investigated age-related …

While a long history of neuropsychological research places language function within a
primarily left-lateralized frontotemporal system, recent neuroimaging work has extended this …

Recent work suggests that most older adults who volunteer to take part in cognitive
experiments are more motivated to do well than are undergraduate students. This empirical …

As we age, sensory and cognitive changes occur that create challenges for language
processing. At the same time, we gain increased experience and expertise with language …

Reading acquisition is enabled by deep changes in the brain's visual system and language
areas, and in the links subtending their collaboration. Disruption of those plastic processes …

Previous eye-tracking research has characterized older adults' reading patterns as “risky,”
arguing that compared to young adults, older adults skip more words, have longer saccades …

An unresolved issue in social perception concerns the effect of perceived ethnicity on
speech processing. Bias-based accounts assume conscious misunderstanding of native …

Healthy ageing has disparate effects on different cognitive domains. The neural basis of
these differences, however, is largely unknown. We investigated this question by using …