This overview provides both theoretical and empirical reasons for emphasizing practice and
familiar skills as a practical strategy for enhancing cognitive functioning in old age. Our …

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 …

Cognitive aging is a flourishing area of research. A significant amount of new data, a number
of new theoretical notions, and many new research issues have been generated in the past …

NOW PUBLISHED BY PLURAL! This classic text now in its tenth edition and now available
from Plural Publishing, The Development of Language continues its focus on language …

Basic findings obtained on memory functions in normal aging are presented and discussed
with respect to five separate but interacting memory systems. These systems are: episodic …

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 …

Confirmatory factor analysis was used to test competing models of declarative memory. Data
from middle-aged participants provided support for a model comprised of 2 2nd-order …

Naming is a fundamental aspect of language. Word-finding deficit, anomia, is the most
common symptom of language dysfunction occurring after brain damage. Besides its …

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 …

The objective was to study the effects of age, education and gender on verbal fluency in
cognitively unimpaired, older individuals. The methods used were as follows: cognitively …