Cognition, Language and Aging

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Heather Harris Wright | College of Allied Health Sciences, East Carolina University

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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 individual differences in education, life experiences, health issues, social identity, as well as gender. The purpose of this book is to provide an advanced text that considers these unique challenges and assembles in one source current information regarding (a) language in the aging population and (b) current theories accounting for age-related changes in language function. A thoughtful and comprehensive review of current research spanning different disciplines that study aging will achieve this purpose. Such disciplines include linguistics, psychology, sociolinguistics, neurosciences, cognitive sciences, and communication sciences.

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[Not in series, 200] 2016. viii, 248 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 7 March 2016

Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/z.200

Table of Contents

Cognition, language, and aging: An introduction

Amy Henderson and Heather Harris Wright | pp. 1–11

The Tip-of-the-Tongue phenomenon: Who, what, and why

Lise Abrams and Danielle K. Davis | pp. 13–53

Andrea Marini and Sara Andreetta | pp. 55–79

Aging effects on discourse production

Stephen Kintz, Gerasimos Fergadiotis and Heather Harris Wright | pp. 81–106

Language comprehension in aging

Gayle DeDe and Jessica Knilans | pp. 107–133

The role of cognition on age-related changes in language, memory, and mental models

David E. Copeland, Nicole J. Bies-Hernandez and Kris Gunawan | pp. 135–163

Reading in normally aging adults

Peter C. Gordon, Matthew W. Lowder and Renske S. Hoedemaker | pp. 165–191

Cognitive and linguistic processes among oldest old persons: Heterogeneity, methodological challenges, and relevance of psychosocial resources

Jennifer A. Margrett, Peter Martin, John L. Woodard and Leonard W. Poon | pp. 193–220

Sociolinguistics, language, and aging

Boyd Davis and Margaret Maclagan | pp. 221–245

Index | pp. 247–248

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