Human Growth and Development / Unit 18 HGD 2569 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Language in Late Life
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The idea
Language holds up in late life: semantic memory, facts and vocabulary, stays intact, entry 2131, even as tip-of-the-tongue retrieval blocks increase, entry 2132.
In practice
A seventy-year-old sure she knows an actor's name, recalling it an hour later.
Where people slip
The problem is retrieval, not loss, entry 2132 notes; vocabulary rises into the seventies in the Seattle study, entry 1823.
Your place on the trail
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