The effect of Aging on Retrieval of Orthographic Knowledge

Objectives: This study was carried out to investigate the effects of Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA)-plus treatment on landmark naming difficulties of the elderly with subject memory impairment (SMI). Methods: Twenty-six Korean individuals aged 60 or older with SMI participated in this study, eleven participants were in the intervention group and fifteen individuals who matched their age and years of education made up the control group. The landmark naming intervention consisted of a total of 9 steps based on SFA, presenting photo stimuli of famous places in Korean or abroad. The intervention used in this study was performed 1:1 with the subject for 60 minutes per session with 16 sessions. Visual stimulation, semantic categories, and semantic features such as geographic location, were applied to promote the performance of naming. The researcher provided tasks and clues to facilitate activation of the semantic and phonological information of landmark names. Results: Results demonstrated that there were significant increases in the performance of the trained and untrained place proper names among the intervention group. There was no generalization effect of the object naming. Conclusion: The current study suggested that the naming treatment using place names was effective in activating the semantic network, facilitating phonological information output, and enhancing landmark naming abilities in people with subjective memory decline.

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Characteristics of Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon on the Task of Naming Celebrities in Healthy Elderly Adults

Kim¹,

Choi²

2021

Commun Sci Disord

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Objectives: In general, the incidence of Tip of the tongue (TOT) phenomenon increases with age, but studies on the difference in the incidence of TOT phenomenon according to the age of healthy elderly adults are limited. The purpose of this study was to investigate the incidence and resolution rate of the TOT, and to find out the change in performance according to the syllabic clues.Methods: Ninety-six healthy elderly people whose age range was between 65 and 84 years old participated in the study. Participants were divided into three groups: 55-64 years old, 65-74 years old, and 75-84 years old age range groups. The TOT task used 30 questions about celebrity naming organized by period and category.Results: First, there was a significant difference of the TOT rate by age group, and as the age increased, the TOT rate due to partial retrieval failure and total retrieval failure increased. Second, the rate of TOT response type that explained the celebrity’s occupation was the highest in all groups. Third, there were significant differences between groups in both the voluntary TOT resolution rate and the TOT resolution rate after providing the syllabic clue. The recovery rate after the syllabic clues decreased with increasing age.Conclusion: This study observed the difference in characteristics of TOT phenomenon in elderly adults according to age group and the importance of phonological clues in TOT phenomenon resolution.

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The effect of Aging on Retrieval of Orthographic Knowledge

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The Effects of Aging and Mild Cognitive Impairment on the Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon in People Naming Task

The Effects of Aging and Mild Cognitive Impairment on the Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon in People Naming Task

Effects of Semantic Feature Analysis Treatment on Landmark Naming in Individuals with Subjective Memory Impairment

Characteristics of Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon on the Task of Naming Celebrities in Healthy Elderly Adults

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