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Age-related differences in idea generation and selection for propositional language

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Title
Age-related differences in idea generation and selection for propositional language
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Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, May 2018
DOI 10.1080/13825585.2018.1476668
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Daniel L. Madden, Martin V. Sale, Gail A. Robinson

Abstract

Conceptual preparation mechanisms such as novel idea generation and selection from amongst competing alternatives are critical for language production and may contribute to age-related language deficits. This study investigated whether older adults show diminished idea generation and selection abilities, compared to younger adults. Twenty younger (18-35 years) and 20 older (60-80 years) adults completed two novel experimental tasks, an idea generation task and a selection task. Older participants were slower than younger participants overall on both tasks. Importantly, this difference was more pronounced for task conditions with greater demands on generation and selection. Older adults were also significantly reduced on a semantic, but not phonemic, word fluency task. Overall, the older group showed evidence of age-related decline specific to idea generation and selection ability. This has implications for the message formulation stage of propositional language decline in normal aging.

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Unknown 18 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 2 11%
Researcher 2 11%
Student > Master 2 11%
Professor 1 6%
Student > Bachelor 1 6%
Other 1 6%
Unknown 9 50%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 3 17%
Psychology 2 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 6%
Arts and Humanities 1 6%
Engineering 1 6%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 10 56%
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