| Literature DB >> 31288976 |
Dirk U Wulff1, Simon De Deyne2, Michael N Jones3, Rui Mata4.
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.Keywords: aging; ecological analyses; network models; representation; search; semantic cognition
Year: 2019 PMID： 31288976 DOI： 10.1016/j.tics.2019.05.003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Cogn Sci ISSN： 1364-6613 Impact factor: 20.229