Changing Minds

Roger Kreuz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2020
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-53958-6 (ISBN)

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We acquire our native language, seemingly without effort, in infancy and early childhood. Language is our constant companion throughout our lifetime, even as we age. Indeed, compared with other aspects of cognition, language seems to be fairly resilient through the process of aging. In Changing Minds, Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts examine how aging affects language--and how language affects aging. Kreuz and Roberts report that what appear to be changes in an older person's language ability are actually produced by declines in such other cognitive processes as memory and perception. Some language abilities, including vocabulary size and writing ability, may even improve with age. And certain language activities--including reading fiction and engaging in conversation--may even help us live fuller and healthier lives.

Roger J. Kreuz is currently Associate Dean at the College of Arts and Sciences at The University of Memphis, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1993. Since earning his PhD from Princeton University in 1987, he has also held appointments at Duke University, Memphis State University, The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands, and the University of Pittsburgh. Richard M. Roberts received his PhD in experimental psychology from the University of Memphis in 1992. From 1993-2006, he taught at the University of Maryland University College, Asian and European Divisions. Since 2006, he has worked as a Foreign Service agent at the US Department of State, with appointments in Niger, Japan, South Korea, and Mongolia.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.12.2020
Sprache	englisch
Maße	137 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-262-53958-6 / 0262539586
ISBN-13	978-0-262-53958-6 / 9780262539586
Zustand	Neuware