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Word Retrieval After the 80s: Evidence From Specific and Multiple Words Naming Tasks

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  • Carlos Rojas
  • Bernardo Riffo
  • Ernesto Guerra

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Older adults show a progressive cognitive decline, and although language processing appears to resist advancing age, studies in word retrieval report that elders show important difficulties. Previous research reports that such failures increase from age 70 years, which suggests that during the fourth age word retrieval would exhibit even stronger constraints. At the same time, extant evidence suggests that only retrieval of a specific word might decline in advanced aging, and not the recovery of multiple pieces associated with a given semantic category. However, those studies did not explicitly assess these phenomena in a group of older adults in their fourth age, and thus cannot be considered conclusive with regards to this particular group. In the present study, we examined word retrieval in three distinctive advanced age groups (60–69, 70–79, and 80+ years) in two production tasks: a picture naming task, and a lexical availability task. We compared the fourth-age group against the other two third-age group in their reaction time (RT) and accuracy as well as, on the lexical availability index (LAI) and total words retrieved in a lexical availability task. Fourth-age group exhibited longer RT in the picture naming task, yet a high level of accuracy. They also showed a reduced number of retrieved words, as well as, a reduced LAI, relative to the control groups. We discuss our results in the context of the decline of fluid intelligence, and the information transmission deficits hypothesis.

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  • Carlos Rojas & Bernardo Riffo & Ernesto Guerra, 2023. "Word Retrieval After the 80s: Evidence From Specific and Multiple Words Naming Tasks," SAGE Open, , vol. 13(2), pages 21582440231, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:sagope:v:13:y:2023:i:2:p:21582440231178796
    DOI: 10.1177/21582440231178796
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