Author: Annalisa MargheriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aphasic persons
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Effect of Age of Acquisition, Familiarity and Printed Frequency of Words on Word Recognition of Non-brain-damaged and Aphasic Adults
Author: Annalisa MargheriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aphasic persons
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Cumulated Index Medicus
Author: Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The Effects of Age of Acquisition and Word Frequency on Recall of Young and Older Adults
Author: Susan Elaine Sherman-BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aging
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Limited Role of Contextual Information in Adult Word Recognition
Author: Aydin Y. DurgunogluPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reading
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Influence of Word Frequency and Aging on Lexical Access
Author: Emily Rebecca Cohen-ShikoraPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic dissertations
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Visual word recognition has been a central area of psychological inquiry over the past century. The current dissertation examines how visual word recognition changes as a function of age by focusing on the influence of word frequency, or how commonly a word is encountered. Word frequency is arguably the strongest predictor of visual word recognition performance across a variety of language tasks, and the most influential factor in models of language processing. All models of visual word recognition include a strong role for word frequency but often assume different underlying mechanisms, which produce differing predictions for age changes. Although there is already a literature examining word frequency effects in younger and older adults, these studies have produced inconsistent results, possibly due to procedural limitations and task-specific processes. This dissertation explores the influence of task and age on the word frequency effect, while directly examining individual differences (e.g., changes in vocabulary, vision, education) in order to better understand the mechanisms underlying word frequency effects. In contrast to the dichotomous approach of examining extreme groups of young and older adults, or extreme bands of word frequency, the present study examined both variables in a continuous manner. The primary finding is that the word frequency effect does not appear to change as a function of age across all three tasks considered. This finding is discussed in reference to previous inconsistent findings in the literature and important theoretical implications.
Age Differences in Word and Language Processing
Author: P.A. AllenPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080526861
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
Component cognitive processes have played a critical role in the development of experimental aging research and theory in psychology as attested by articles published on this theme. However, in the last five to ten years, there has been a substantial increase in the number of articles attempting to isolate a single factor (or small subset of factors) responsible for age differences in information processing. This view of aging is frequently termed the complexity model of the generalized slowing model, the primary assumption being that age differences in cognition are due simply to a relatively larger performance decrement on the part of older adults (compared to younger adults) as task complexity increases. Because generalized complexity theorists have questioned the utility of using component cognitive processes as theoretical constructs, the editors feel it is time to restate why component cognitive processes are critical to any thorough understanding of age differences in cognition. Thus the present edited volume represents an attempt to demonstrate the utility of the process-specific approach to cognitive aging. Central to this effort are illustrations of how regression analyses may provide evidence for general slowing by maximizing explained variance while at the same time obscuring local sources of variance. The book concentrates on age differences in word and language processing, because these factors relate to reading which is a critical cognitive process used in everyday life. Furthermore, age differences in word and language processing illustrate the importance of taking component cognitive processes into consideration. The breadth of coverage of the book attests to the wide range of cognitive processes involved in word and language processing.
Age of Acquisition and Frequency Effects in Visual Word Recognition
Author: Hans StadthagenAge of Acquisition and Imageability
Author: Danielle M. PloetzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description