Longitudinal change in language production: effects of aging and dementia on grammatical complexity and propositional content

Article Abstract:

Research is presented on both healthy individuals and individuals with dementia to map declines in linguistic ability, specifically for propositional content and grammatical complexity. Declines in the healthy group were linked to advancing age, while declines in the dementia group were evident regardless of age. However, rates of decline were found to be uniform across individuals.

Psychological aspects, Statistical Data Included, Dementia, Human information processing, Age, Age (Biology), Linguistic competence

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The costs of doing two things at once for young and older adults: talking while walking, finger tapping, and ignoring speech or noise

Article Abstract:

Young and old adults were examined by providing language samples in response to questions while walking, finger tapping, and ignoring speech or noise. The language samples were scored on 3 dimensions: fluency, complexity and content.

Science & research, Elderly, Old age, Memory in old age, Old age memory, Vocabulary, Vocabulary skills

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Eye movements of young and older adults during reading

Article Abstract:

The eye movements of young and older adults are examined as they read sentences varying in syntactic complexity. Analysis reveals that age-associated declines in working memory affect syntactic processing.

Analysis, Comparative analysis, Eye, Short-term memory, Eye movements

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