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The effects of aging and dual task performance on language production
Kemper, Susan Schmalzried, RaLynn Cheri Herman, Ruth E. Leedahl, Skye N. Mohankumar, Deepthi
Kemper, Susan
Schmalzried, RaLynn Cheri
Herman, Ruth E.
Leedahl, Skye N.
Mohankumar, Deepthi
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A digital pursuit rotor task was used to measure dual task costs of language production by young and older adults. After training on the pursuit rotor, participants were asked to track the moving target while providing a language sample. When simultaneously engaged, young adults experienced greater dual task costs to tracking, fluency, and grammatical complexity than older adults. Older adults were able to preserve their tracking performance by speaking more slowly. Individual differences in working memory, processing speed, and Stroop interference affected vulnerability to dual task costs. These results demonstrate the utility of using a digital pursuit rotor to study the effects of aging and dual task demands on language production and confirm prior findings that young and older adults use different strategies to accommodate to dual task demands.
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This is an electronic version of an article published in Kemper, S., Schmalzried, R., Herman, R., Leedahl, S., & Mohankumar, D. (2009). The effects of aging and dual task performance on language production. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 16, 241-259. PM#2674132. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition
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2009-05
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Taylor & Francis (Psychology Press)
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Kemper, S., Schmalzried, R., Herman, R., Leedahl, S., & Mohankumar, D. (2009). The effects of aging and dual task performance on language production. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 16, 241-259. PM#2674132 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13825580802438868