New Perspectives on the Aging Lexicon

The Aging Lexicon Consortium

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2019.05.003

New Perspectives on the Aging Lexicon

The Aging Lexicon Consortium

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Abstract

The field of cognitive aging has seen considerable advances in describing the linguistic and semantic changes that happen during the adult life span to uncover the structure of the mental lexicon (i.e., the mental repository of lexical and conceptual representations). Nevertheless, there is still debate concerning the sources of these changes, including the role of environmental exposure and several cognitive mechanisms associated with learning, representation, and retrieval of information. We review the current status of research in this field and outline a framework that promises to assess the contribution of both ecological and psychological aspects to the aging lexicon.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	686-698
Number of pages	13
Journal	Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Volume	23
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2019.05.003
State	Published - Aug 1 2019

Keywords

aging
ecological analyses
network models
representation
search
semantic cognition

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience

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