The interactive support of Cognitive Reserve and Semantic Knowledge in Proper Name retrieval

Montemurro, Sonia; Montefinese, Maria; Serena, Martina; Pucci, Veronica; Mondini, Sara; Semenza, Carlo

doi:10.31219/osf.io/ak2mf

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“…In the literature, education level is often used as a proxy for cognitive reserve, namely the knowledge and experience an individual acquires throughout the life span (Stern, 2009). Cognitive reserve can be a protective factor against age-related or pathological cerebral deterioration and is strongly correlated with an individual’s semantic knowledge (Darby et al, 2017; Montemurro et al, 2020). For this reason, it is not surprising that this factor affected the semantic processing performance of the participants in the present study (with a better general performance for participants with a higher education level).…”

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Aging-related effects on the controlled retrieval of semantic information.

Ambrosini¹,

Peressotti²,

Gennari³

et al. 2023

Psychology and Aging

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The efficient use of knowledge requires semantic control processes to retrieve context-relevant information. So far, it is well-established that semantic knowledge, as measured with vocabulary tests, does not decline with aging. Yet, it is still unclear whether controlled retrieval—the context-driven retrieval of very specific aspects of semantic knowledge—deteriorates in aging, following the same fate as other forms of cognitive control. Here, we tackled this issue by comparing the performance of younger and older native Italian speakers during a semantic feature verification task. To manipulate the control demands, we parametrically varied the semantic salience of the target feature for the cue concept. As compared to their young counterparts, older adults showed worse performance (in terms of reaction times) as the salience of the target feature of the concept decreased. This result suggests that older people have relatively greater difficulties in regulating the activation within semantic representation when conditions pose high demands of controlled retrieval of semantic information.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Aging-related effects on the controlled retrieval of semantic information.

Ambrosini¹,

Peressotti²,

Gennari³

et al. 2023

Psychology and Aging

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“…However, this association was mediated by the education level. In literature, the education level is often used as a proxy for cognitive reserve (the knowledge and experience an individual acquires throughout the lifespan) (Stern, 2009), which may be a protective factor to age-related or pathological cerebral deterioration and is strongly correlated to an individual's semantic knowledge (Darby et al, 2017;Montemurro et al, 2020). For this reason, it is not surprising that this factor affected the semantic processing performance of the participants of the present study (with a better general performance for participants with a higher education level, especially for the older ones), but it did not interact with the semantic control demands.…”

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confidence: 99%

Aging-related effects on the controlled retrieval of semantic information

Ambrosini¹,

Peressotti²,

Gennari³

et al. 2021

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The efficient use of knowledge requires semantic control processes to retrieve context-relevant information. So far, it is well established that semantic knowledge, as measured with vocabulary tests, do not decline in aging. Yet, it is still unclear if controlled retrieval -the context-driven retrieval of very specific aspects of semantic knowledge- declines in aging, following the same fate of other forms of cognitive control. Here, we tackled this issue by comparing the performance of younger and older native Italian speakers during a semantic feature verification task. To manipulate the control demands, we parametrically varied the semantic significance, a measure of the salience of the target feature for the cue concept. As compared to their young counterparts, older adults showed a greater performance disruption (in terms of reaction times) as the significance value of the target feature decreased. This result suggests that older people have difficulties in regulating the activation within semantic representation, such that they fail to handle non-dominant (or weakly activated) yet task-relevant semantic information.

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The interactive support of Cognitive Reserve and Semantic Knowledge in Proper Name retrieval

Cited by 2 publications

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Aging-related effects on the controlled retrieval of semantic information.

Aging-related effects on the controlled retrieval of semantic information.

Aging-related effects on the controlled retrieval of semantic information

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