Changing Minds: How Aging Affects Language and How Language Affects Aging

by Roger J. Kreuz, Roger Kreuz, Richard Roberts

Book Overview

Why language ability remains resilient and how it shapes our lives.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262042592
• ISBN13: 9780262042598
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.1"