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 …

With the population of older adults expected to grow rapidly over the next two decades, it
has become increasingly important to advance research efforts to elucidate the mechanisms …

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 …

Experimental research and older adults' reports of their own experience suggest that the
ability to produce the spoken forms of familiar words declines with aging. Older adults …

The most common cause of vascular cognitive impairment not demented (VCIND) is
cerebral small vessel disease leading to diffuse subcortical white matter lesions. While many …

Two experiments in which participants named pictured objects with difficult or easier names,
and a reanalysis and review of published data, reveal that problematic measures used in …

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 …

Speech and conversational hand gestures were recorded during interviews of 23 younger
(M= 21 years) and 19 older adults (M= 70 years). Three kinds of questions were used in …

Proficient bilinguals demonstrate slower lexical retrieval than comparable monolinguals.
The present study tested predictions from two main accounts of this effect, the frequency-lag …