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Cognition, language and aging /
Age-related changes in cognitive and language functions have been extensively researched over the past half-century. The older adult represents a unique population for studying cognition and language because of the many challenges that are presented with investigating this population, including indi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Cognition, Language and Aging
- Title page
- LCC data
- Dedication page
- Table of contents
- 1. Cognition, language, and aging: An introduction
- Summary
- References
- 2. The Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon: Who, what, and why
- What is a TOT, and why does it occur?
- Theoretical perspectives of older adults' TOT incidence
- Factors affecting TOT incidence
- TOT resolution
- Proper name TOTs in Alzheimer's disease
- Current and future directions
- Conclusion
- References
- 3. Age-related effects on language production. A combined psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic persp
- Introduction
- Psycholinguistic accounts of language production
- Cognitive functions affecting the process of message production
- Psycholinguistic investigations assessing age-related variations in linguistic processing
- Age-related effects on microlinguistic aspects of message production
- Age-related effects on lexical processing
- Age-related effects on grammatical processing
- Age-related effects on macrolinguistic aspects of message production
- Effects of aging on the neural networks subserving the process of linguistic production
- Conclusions and future directions
- References
- 4. Aging effects on discourse production
- Aging effects on discourse production
- Interactive-construction model of discourse
- Microlinguistic analysis
- Lexical diversity
- Measuring lexical diversity
- Lexical diversity in older adults
- Lexical diversity and cognition
- Macrolinguistic analysis
- Coherence
- Measures of coherence
- Coherence and aging
- Coherence and aging: Cognition
- Future directions
- Conclusions
- References
- 5. Language comprehension in aging
- Processes involved in sentence comprehension
- Sentence-related variables
- Effects of sensory acuity on sentence comprehension ability in older adults.
- Older adults as language experts
- Conclusions
- References
- 6. The role of cognition on age-related changes in language, memory, and mental models
- Factors that affect older adults' language comprehension
- Situation models and event models
- Aging and the use of situation models during text comprehension
- Activating and inhibiting inferences
- Integrating and reasoning about information in memory
- Event segmentation
- Conclusion
- References
- 7. Reading in normally aging adults
- Aging and word recognition during reading
- Aging, reading and memory
- Conclusion
- References
- 8. Cognitive and linguistic processes among oldest old persons: Heterogeneity, methodological challe
- Heterogeneity, change, and diversity among the oldest old: Impact on daily life
- Heterogeneity within "old age"
- Developmental changes and diversity of cognitive outcomes among the oldest old
- Individual differences: Diversity of outcomes in later life
- Methodological challenges assessing cognitive change among the oldest old
- Lifespan psychosocial resources and cognition: Opportunities via later life investigations
- Dynamic processes across the lifespan
- Multi-level influences and resources
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- 9. Sociolinguistics, language, and aging
- Introduction
- Bridging sociolinguistics and clinical findings in spontaneous language maintenance and decline
- Language variation and discourse approaches in sociolinguistics
- Language and aging identities
- Language, aging and gender
- Aging, media and corpora
- Case study 1, Use of Extenders by older adults
- Case study 2. Contribution of older speakers to the analysis of New Zealand English
- Summary and implications
- References
- Index.