Download or read book What's in a Name? Predictors of Proper Name Retrieval Deficits in Older Age written by Meagan T. Farrell and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Further, older adults (but not young) showed opposing influences of syllable frequency for non-names and names, experiencing more TOTs for non-names with LF first syllables but fewer TOTs for proper names with LF first syllables. With respect to priming, phonological primes reduced TOTs, increased correct retrievals, and boosted TOT resolution, but only for older adults and for non-names. Conversely, semantic primes did not influence TOTs but did reduce older adults' correct responses, again only for non-names. These findings suggest that age differences in TOTs for non-names and proper names are driven by different characteristics. For non-names, TOTs represent failed activation of LF phonology, whereas for proper names, TOTs result from increased complexity in the structure of names' lexical representations, where first and last names are shared by other people. These results provide clarity and specificity to models of proper name retrieval and cognitive aging.