Leah Light / M. Burke (eds.)

Language, Memory, and Aging

Herausgeber: Burke, Deborah M.; Light, Leah L.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From a cognitive standpoint, the authors consider the role of awareness in memory and language.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 633g
• ISBN-13: 9780521329422
• ISBN-10: 0521329426
• Artikelnr.: 23181323

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Theories of information processing and theories of aging
2. Effects of aging on verbal abilities: examination of the psychometric literature
3. Aging and individual differences in memory for written discourse
4. Geriatric psycholinguistics: syntactic limitations of oral and written language
5. Aging and memory activation: the priming of semantic and episodic memories
6. Automatic and effortful semantic processes in old age: experimental and naturalistic approaches
7. Integrating information from discourse: do older adults show deficits?
8. Comprehension of pragmatic implications in young and older adults
9. Capacity theory and the processing of inferences
10. Age differences in memory for texts: production deficiency or processing liminations?
11. Episodic memory and knowledge interactions across adulthood
12. The disorder of naming in Alzheimer's disease
13. Language and memory processing in semile dementia Alzheimer's type
14. Patterns of language and memory in old age
Author index
Subject index.