Whereas executive functions are known to be closely tied to successful language
processing in children and younger adults, less is known about how age-related decline in …

We examined whether older adults benefit from a larger mental-lexicon size and world
knowledge to process idioms, one of few abilities that do not stop developing until later …

Comprehending idioms (eg, bite the bullet) requires that people appreciate their figurative
meanings while suppressing literal interpretations of the phrase. While much is known about …

Normal aging is accompanied by changes in both structural and functional cerebral
organization. Although verbal knowledge seems to be relatively stable across the lifespan …

The current study reports the effects of accumulating contextual constraints on neural indices
of lexico-semantic processing (ie, effects of word frequency and orthographic neighborhood) …

The goal of the current study was to investigate whether age-related changes in processing
speed, as indexed by verbal fluency, modulate context use in the resolution of ambiguous …

Abstract Effects of normal aging on the use of sentence context information during language
comprehension were examined by measuring younger and older adults' event‐related …

To examine changes in semantic memory organization and use during aging, we recorded
event-related potentials as younger and older adults listened to sentences ending with the …

This study examined age effects on real-life language use and within-person variations in
language use across social contexts. We used the Electronically Activated Recorder (ie, a …

Many studies have shown that as people age, they tend to show deficits in cognitive abilities
(eg, Salthouse, 2012). However, the goal of cognitive aging research is to not only examine …