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 …

On repetition priming tasks, memory is measured indirectly as a change in performance due
to recent experience. It is often functionally and neurally dissociated from performance on …

A New York Times Notable Book: A psychologist's “gripping and thought-provoking” look at
how and why our brains sometimes fail us (Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works). In …

After reviewing situational and demographic factors that have been argued to affect
speakers' disfluency rates, we examined disfluency rates in a corpus of task-oriented …

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 …

The authors induced tip-of-the-tongue states (TOTs) for English words in monolinguals and
bilinguals using picture stimuli with cognate (eg, vampire, which is vampiro in Spanish) and …

In a repetition priming paradigm, young and older participants read aloud prime words that
sometimes shared phonological components with a target word that answered a general …

A tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) elicitation task and a picture-naming task were used to examine
the role of neighborhood frequency as well as word frequency and neighborhood density in …

This chapter considers the consequences of bilingualism for planning speech in each of the
bilingual's two languages. Two accounts are contrasted of bilingual language production …

Working memory is often considered the workplace of the mind. It refers to a temporary
memory buffer-lasting for a few seconds at most-which is able to passively store and actively …