The Usefulness of a Multilevel Procedure of Discourse Analysis in Determining the Characteristics of Discourse Production in Healthy Aging and Their Relation to Attention and Inhibitory Control

EasyChair Preprint 13915

Abstract

Twenty-six middle-aged adults (mean age 60.04 years; 14 females) and twenty-six senior adults (mean age 79.35 years; 16 females) were administered a narrative production task and tests that explored their attentional and inhibitory control skills. Senior adults had reduced lexical selection and narrative organization skills that correlated with measures of sustained attention.

Keyphrases: Aging, cognition, discourse production

@booklet{EasyChair:13915,
  author    = {Andrea Marini},
  title     = {The Usefulness of a Multilevel Procedure of Discourse Analysis in Determining the Characteristics of Discourse Production in Healthy Aging and Their Relation to Attention and Inhibitory Control},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 13915},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2024}}