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| Factors influencing word naming in younger and older adults | | Author(s) | Daniel H Spieler, David A Balota |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 15, no 2, June 2000 |
| Pages | pp 225-231 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Performance ; Young adults [20-25] ; Age groups [elderly] ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The present study examined age differences in the influence of three factors that previous research has shown to influence word-naming performance: word frequency, orthographic length, and orthographic neighbourhood measures. Between them, the participants - 31 younger adults (mean age 22.6) and 29 older people (mean age 73.4) - named all 2,820 words included in the study. The results revealed that all three factors predicted reliable amounts of variance in word-naming latencies for both groups. However, compared with younger adults, older people showed a larger influence of word frequency and reduced influences for orthographic length and orthographic neighbourhood density. Overall, the results suggest that lexical level factors increase in influence in older people whereas sub-lexical factors decrease in influence. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001024202 A |
| Classmark | DB: 5H: SD6: BB: 48: 7T |
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