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Demographic Effects on Longitudinal Semantic Processing, Working Memory, and Cognitive Speed
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In: J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci (2020)
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The role of executive functions in object- and action-naming among older adults
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In: Exp Aging Res (2019)
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Breathe Easy, Speak Easy: Pulmonary Function and Language Performance in Aging
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Psycholinguistics of Aphasia Pharmacotherapy: Asking the Right Questions
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Semantic verbal fluency in two contrasting languages
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This cross-linguistic study investigated Semantic Verbal Fluency (SVF) performance in 30 American English-speaking and 30 Finnish-speaking healthy elderly adults with different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Despite the different backgrounds of the participant groups, remarkable similarities were found between the groups in the overall SVF performance in two semantic categories (animals and clothes), in the proportions of words produced within the first half (30 seconds) of the SVF tasks, and in the variety of words produced for the categories. These similarities emerged despite the difference in the mean length of words produced in the two languages (with Finnish words being significantly longer than English words). The few differences found between the groups concerned the types and frequencies of the 10 most common words generated for the categories. It was concluded that culture and language differences do not contribute significantly to variability in SVF performance in healthy elderly people.
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2760351 https://doi.org/10.1080/02699200902839800 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19440894
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