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Nicholas Stanley; Tara Davis – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine if there are age-related differences in semantic processing with linguistic and nonlinguistic masking, as measured by the N400. Method: Sixteen young (19-31 years) and 16 middle-aged (41-57 years) adults with relatively normal hearing sensitivity were asked to determine whether word pairs were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Semantics, Young Adults, Adults
Amy Vogel-Eyny – ProQuest LLC, 2021
One of the notable language difficulties experienced by healthy older adults is word retrieval failure, specifically the tip-of-the-tongue state (TOT). A TOT occurs when one has a strong sense of knowing the word, such that the semantic content is accessed, but the entirety of the word's phonology is temporarily inaccessible. Such retrieval…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Linguistic Performance, Older Adults, Nouns