This article addresses key topics in cognitive aging, intending to provide the reader with a
brief overview of the current state of research in this growing, multidisciplinary field. A …

In discourse, older adults tend to be more verbose and more disfluent than young adults,
especially when the task is difficult and when it places few constraints on the content of the …

Language in old age has been an active research area since early experimental
investigations in cognitive aging (eg, Craik & Masani, 1967; Riegel & Riegel, 1964). This is …

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a
speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use. The effects …

Using longitudinal data on the Boston Naming Test (Kaplan, Goodglass, & Weintraub, 1983)
collected over 20 years from healthy individuals aged 30 to 94, we examined change in …

The aim of this study was to determine whether naming difficulties arise in individuals as
young as their 50s. Participants of 25–35, 50–59, 60–69, and above 70 years of age were …

In this book different aspects of language and aging are discussed. While language spoken
by and language spoken with elderly people have been treated as different areas of …

Dementia: From Diagnosis to Management-A Functional Approach is a comprehensive
description of a functional and behavioral approach to assessing and treating persons with …

Conversational speech from over 300 speakers from 17 to 68 years of age was analyzed for
age-related changes in the timing and content of spoken language production. Overall …

Objective: Increased variability in cognition with age has been argued as an indication of
pathological processes. Focusing on early detection of neurodegenerative disorders, we …