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Author Light, Leah L.

Title Language, memory, and aging / edited by Leah L. Light and Deborah M. Burke
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988

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Description xi, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Theories of information processing and theories of aging / Roberta L. Klatzky -- Effects of aging on verbal abilities : examination of the psychometric literature / Timothy A. Salthouse -- Aging and individual differences in memory for written discourse / Joellen T. Hartley -- Geriatric psycholinguistics : syntactic limitations of oral and written language / Susan Kemper -- Aging and memory activation : the priming of semantic and episodic memories / Darlene V. Howard -- Automatic and effortful semantic processes in old age : experimental and naturalistic approaches / Deborah M. Burke and Rose Marie Harrold -- Integrating information from discourse : do older adults show deficits? / Elizabeth M. Zelinski -- Comprehension of pragmatic implications in young and older adults / Leah L. Light and Shirley A. Albertson -- Capacity theory and the processing of inferences / Rose T. Zacks and Lynn Hasher -- Age differences in memory for texts : production deficiency or processing limitations? / Gillian Cohen -- Episodic memory and knowledge interactions across adulthood / Gary Gillund and Marion Perlmutter -- The disorder of naming in Alzheimer's disease / F. Jacob Huff -- Language and memory processing in senile dementia Alzheimer's type / Olga B. Emery -- Patterns of language and memory in old age / Leah L. Light and Deborah M. Burke
Summary Shirley Albertson-Owens (SCC professor) is co-author of chapter 8, "Comprehension of pragmatic implications in young and older adults."
Analysis Old persons Language skills related to memory Psychological aspects
Old persons Language skills related to memory Psychological aspects
Notes Paperback edition published 1993
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and indexes
Subject Older people -- Language.
Aging -- Psychological aspects.
Cognition in old age.
Language disorders in old age.
Memory in old age.
Psycholinguistics.
Aged.
Aging.
Language Disorders.
Memory Disorders.
Author Burke, Deborah M.
Light, Leah L.
LC no. 88001068
ISBN 0521329426
052144876X (paperback)