Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in the elderly.
Clinicopathological studies support the presence of a long preclinical phase of the disease …

Internationally recognised as one of the leading texts in its field, this volume offers a
comprehensive introduction to vocabulary for language teachers who would like to know …

We surveyed studies that measured information-processing durations in groups of
experimental subjects (children or elderly adults) and a group of college-aged control …

The phenomenon of age-related cognitive decline has long been controversial, both in
terms of mere existence, and with respect to how it is explained. Some researchers have …

Abstract [The effects of normal aging are discussed with reference to sensory, short-term,
long-term, episodic, semantic, and implicit memory.] Beginning with discussions of classical …

This paper examines three methodological issues concerning the measurement of semantic
memory impairment in brain-damaged patients. Ten carefully selected patients with …

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 …

To examine changes in semantic memory organization and use during aging, we recorded
event-related potentials as younger and older adults listened to sentences ending with the …

During sentence comprehension, older adults are less likely than younger adults to predict
features of likely upcoming words. A pair of experiments assessed whether such differences …

There are substantial declines in behavioral measures of cognitive function with age,
including decreased function of executive processes and long-term memory. There is also …