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

Oh, Sang-A; Ha, Ji-Wan

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“…In contrast, language production and specifically lexical generation which involves word retrieval and word production are more frequently impaired by age. Older adults have difficulties in retrieving names [35,51,88,133] and encounter more tipof-the-tongue situations [26,34,53,135,167], i.e., the feeling of knowing the meaning of a word without being able to find and produce the word form immediately. These difficulties are more frequent in adults above 70 years [198] but may also occur earlier [35,191].…”

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Strategies and cognitive reserve to preserve lexical production in aging

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In the absence of any neuropsychiatric condition, older adults may show declining performance in several cognitive processes and among them, in retrieving and producing words, reflected in slower responses and even reduced accuracy compared to younger adults. To overcome this difficulty, healthy older adults implement compensatory strategies, which are the focus of this paper. We provide a review of mainstream findings on deficient mechanisms and possible neurocognitive strategies used by older adults to overcome the deleterious effects of age on lexical production. Moreover, we present findings on genetic and lifestyle factors that might either be protective or risk factors of cognitive impairment in advanced age. We propose that “aging-modulating factors” (AMF) can be modified, offering prevention opportunities against aging effects. Based on our review and this proposition, we introduce an integrative neurocognitive model of mechanisms and compensatory strategies for lexical production in older adults (entitled Lexical Access and Retrieval in Aging, LARA). The main hypothesis defended in LARA is that cognitive aging evolves heterogeneously and involves complementary domain-general and domain-specific mechanisms, with substantial inter-individual variability, reflected at behavioral, cognitive, and brain levels. Furthermore, we argue that the ability to compensate for the effect of cognitive aging depends on the amount of reserve specific to each individual which is, in turn, modulated by the AMF. Our conclusion is that a variety of mechanisms and compensatory strategies coexist in the same individual to oppose the effect of age. The role of reserve is pivotal for a successful coping with age-related changes and future research should continue to explore the modulating role of AMF.

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“…따라서 노인들은 친숙한 사람의 얼굴 을 보았을 때, 사람에 대한 의미 정보는 떠올릴 수 있으나 이름의 음 운 형태를 검색할 수 없는 일이 종종 발생하게 되며 (Papagno & Capitani, 1998), 이러한 친숙한 사람 이름에 대한 설단현상은 노인들을 당황스럽고 짜증나게 하는 주요한 기억장애로 보고되고 있다 (Cohen & Faulkner, 1986;Lovelace & Twohig, 1990). 사람 이름대기와 같은 고유명사에서의 노인들이 보이는 설단현상과 관련된 연구들 은 국내에서도 다양하게 이루어져 왔다 (Kim, Kim, & Yoon, 2020;Lee & Choi, 2016;Oh & Ha, 2015) gren, 1998;Schwartz, 1999). 특히, 청년은 목표단어의 첫 글자와 마 지막 글자에 대한 정보가 비슷하게 유지되는 것에 반해 노인은 목 표단어의 마지막 글자에 대한 정보가 첫 글자에 대한 정보에 비해 더 큰 손실을 보인다 (Park et al, 2013).…”

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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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“…Oh and Ha [ 18 ] conducted a celebrity naming task for normal adults and MCI patients. When comparing the occurrence and resolution of the ToT phenomenon between the two groups, more ToT phenomena occurred in the MCI group.…”

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The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon in older adults with subjective memory complaints

Kim

Kim²,

Yoon

2020

PLoS ONE

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In older adults with subjective memory complaints (SMCs), featuring a decline in memory but not exhibiting problems during medical examinations and objective memory tests, the weak links between nodes evident in the word retrieval process can be a primary factor for predicting mild cognitive impairment and dementia. This study examined the frequency of the "Tip-of-the-Tongue" (ToT) phenomenon according to age and subjective memory complaints of older adults, and identified differences in the resolution method using sequential cues. A celebrity naming task was performed on older adults (aged 50 to 79) with SMCs (n = 30) and without SMCs (n = 30), comparing the frequency of the ToT phenomenon and in resolution methods. We found that, even if our subjects with SMCs obtained normal results in the objective neuropsychology test, they experienced a significantly higher frequency of the ToT phenomenon than those without SMCs. In addition, subjects with SMCs showed a significantly lower rate of resolution, both spontaneous and following a syllabic cue, compared to those without SMCs. SMCs can be a very early marker of degenerative diseases causing cognitive dysfunction, and thus the selection of appropriate tools for early detection of SMCs is important. The proper naming task may sensitively detect subclinical symptoms of SMCs in subjects who are not classified as patients with cognitive impairments on general neuropsychological test. In addition, this task can identify weak connections between semantic and phonological nodes due to changes in the neural region of older adults with SMCs.

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

Cited by 9 publications

References 13 publications

Strategies and cognitive reserve to preserve lexical production in aging

Strategies and cognitive reserve to preserve lexical production in aging

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

The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon in older adults with subjective memory complaints

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