Change in Object Naming Ability During Adulthood

Connor, Lisa Tabor; Spiro, Avron; Obler, Loraine K.; Albert, Martin L.

doi:10.1093/geronb/59.5.p203

Cited by 140 publications

(122 citation statements)

References 37 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…These difficulties have been confirmed in many studies showing a word naming decline on the Boston Naming Test (BNT), both cross-sectional (e.g., MacKay, Connor, Albert, & Obler, 2002;Mariën, Mampaey, Vervaet, Saerens, & De Deyn, 1998) and longitudinal (Au et al, 1995;Barresi, Nicholas, Connor, Obler, & Albert, 2000;Connor, Spiro, Obler, & Albert, 2004;Goral, Spiro, Albert, Obler, & Connor, 2007).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 84%

“…In participants in their 50s, this weakness may remain subtle; these participants may be able to activate the word, but do so more slowly than before. As Connor et al (2004) pointed out, the age-related decline in naming may accelerate with increasing age. In participants in their 60s, connections may have further weakened, leading to a decrease in the mean number of correct responses and slower correct naming latencies.…”

Section: Effects Of Aging On Naming Capacities: Age Of Onset and Theomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We predicted that the naming difficulties of participants in their 50s in particular might be subtle and could be revealed by longer naming latencies 120 C. Verhaegen and M. Poncelet unaccompanied by any decrease in naming accuracy. We assumed that the age-related naming disadvantage may increase with age (Connor et al, 2004), with the eventual onset of naming errors. Thus, in participants above 70 years old, we expected to find both slower naming latencies and lower picture naming scores.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Changes in Naming and Semantic Abilities With Aging From 50 to 90 years

Verhaegen

Poncelet

2012

J Int Neuropsychol Soc

104

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The aim of this study was to determine whether naming difficulties arise in individuals as young as their 50s. Participants of 25-35, 50-59, 60-69, and above 70 years of age were given a picture naming task. To uncover subtle naming difficulties, latencies were analyzed in addition to accuracy. To control whether the expected slower naming latencies could be due to a general slowing affecting all cognitive tasks, participants were also given an odd/even judgment task to assess cognitive processing speed. The results confirmed that participants in their 50s presented decline in naming performance, reflected by an increase in naming latencies, whereas adults in their 60s and their 70s showed both a decrease in accuracy and an increase in latency. Moreover, the increase in naming latencies remained significant even after controlling for odd/even judgment latencies, suggesting a degradation specific to the picture naming task. We assumed that these slower latencies may result from a language-specific impairment. As a further test for languagespecific degradation, participants' semantic capacities were also assessed with a synonym judgment task and the Pyramids and Palm Trees test. The above-70 group showed semantic degradation. The contributions of multiple factors to naming difficulties in aging are discussed.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 84%

Section: Effects Of Aging On Naming Capacities: Age Of Onset and Theomentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Changes in Naming and Semantic Abilities With Aging From 50 to 90 years

Verhaegen

Poncelet

2012

J Int Neuropsychol Soc

104

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In the present paper, we build on work conducted by Connor et al (2004) to examine age-related change in multiple lexical-retrieval skills. Here, we employ multivariate techniques to compare and contrast performance on five lexical tests: two picture-naming tests, two list-generation tests, and a vocabulary test that does not require the retrieval of specific labels.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Change in lexical retrieval skills in adulthood

Goral

Spiro

Albert

et al. 2007

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

We conducted multivariate random-effect analyses on longitudinal data from 238 adults, ranging in age from 30 to 94, who were tested on five lexical tests over a period of 20 years to examine (a) the relations between lemma and lexeme retrieval as manifested in different tests of lexical retrieval and (b) changes in lexical processing during older adulthood. This study documents differing profiles of age-related decline in lexical retrieval determined by task demand, gender, education, and underlying cognitive skills. The tasks that required retrieval of unique lexical items (Boston Naming Test and Action Naming Test) yielded significant age-related decline that became more rapid in older age, distinguishing them from tasks that allowed for the retrieval of various lexical items. Findings support a cascaded progression of lemma and lexeme retrieval during word production.

show abstract

“…Holtzer et al's (2008) results revealed that the mean of the 15-item abbreviated version of the BNT was 12.2 (81.1%) for the age group 70-79 years and 11.6 (77.3%) for the age group 80-89 years, indicating a declining rate of approximately 0.5% per year. Perhaps the smallest decline rates reported thus far may be found in the longitudinal research by Connor et al (2004), who gave the BNT to people aged 30-80 years. The decline rates reported there are around 0.2% per year.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Shrinkage of the Mental Lexicon of Kanji in an Elderly Japanese Woman: The Effect of a 10-Year Passage of Time

Takashima

Yamada

2009

J Cross Cult Gerontol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This investigation addressed the questions at what rate and how an elderly Japanese woman, AA, lost kanji nouns between the ages of 83 years and 93 years. Results from a kanji naming task given twice with a 10-year interval showed that (1) on average, the size of AA's mental lexicon of kanji shrank at a rate of approximately 1% per year and (2) while ease of acquisition had the highest correlation with naming performance followed by kanji frequency, age of acquisition, and visual complexity in this order, a logistic regression analysis identified ease of acquisition and age of acquisition as potent independent variables. Results of error analysis indicated that visual encoding errors were most prevalent. The decline in AA's mental lexicon is discussed in light of the rates of declines in object naming ability reported in previous studies. The concept of ease of acquisition and the dissociation between AA's general mental state and lexicon of kanji are also discussed.

show abstract

Change in Object Naming Ability During Adulthood

Cited by 140 publications

References 37 publications

Changes in Naming and Semantic Abilities With Aging From 50 to 90 years

Changes in Naming and Semantic Abilities With Aging From 50 to 90 years

Change in lexical retrieval skills in adulthood

Shrinkage of the Mental Lexicon of Kanji in an Elderly Japanese Woman: The Effect of a 10-Year Passage of Time

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About