TY - BOOK ID - 88205150 TI - Age differences in word and language processing AU - Allen, Philip A. AU - Bashore, Theodore R. PY - 1995 VL - 110 SN - 9780444817662 0444817662 9780080526867 0080526861 9786611186821 1281186821 PB - Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, DB - UniCat KW - Cognition KW - Human information processing KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Age factors KW - Psycholinguistics. KW - Language, Psychology of KW - Language and languages KW - Psychology of language KW - Speech KW - Linguistics KW - Psychology KW - Thought and thinking KW - Age factors in human information processing KW - Aging KW - Age factors in cognition KW - Ability, Influence of age on KW - Age factors. KW - Psychological aspects KW - Cognition - Age factors KW - Human information processing - Age factors UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:88205150 AB - Component cognitive processes have played a critical role in the development of experimental aging research and theory in psychology as attested by articles published on this theme. However, in the last five to ten years, there has been a substantial increase in the number of articles attempting to isolate a single factor (or small subset of factors) responsible for age differences in information processing. This view of aging is frequently termed the complexity model of the generalized slowing model, the primary assumption being that age differences in cognition are due simply to a relatively ER -