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Language Loss Through Aging

There are two types of memory: long term memory (LTM) and short term memory (STM). As people age, they often have difficulty recalling names and attribute this to aging, but the real explanation is that older people simply know more people and facts than younger people, making it harder to access specific memories. Studies show that LTM ability actually improves up until age 50. Any losses after age 50 are not as profound as commonly believed. When asked to recall lists after 40 minutes, young and old perform similarly. The constraints of aging seem to primarily affect STM, which refers to the ability to input material to be recalled. Even with natural age-related decline, language ability remains strong for older adults. Chronological

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Language Loss Through Aging

There are two types of memory: long term memory (LTM) and short term memory (STM). As people age, they often have difficulty recalling names and attribute this to aging, but the real explanation is that older people simply know more people and facts than younger people, making it harder to access specific memories. Studies show that LTM ability actually improves up until age 50. Any losses after age 50 are not as profound as commonly believed. When asked to recall lists after 40 minutes, young and old perform similarly. The constraints of aging seem to primarily affect STM, which refers to the ability to input material to be recalled. Even with natural age-related decline, language ability remains strong for older adults. Chronological

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Language loss through aging

Slide 1

There are 2 kinds of memory in linguistics performance :

LTM (long term memory) ability

Is the thing when people growing older , they have difficulty with recalling name and they
continuously attribute this deficiency to growing old. But the plausible thing explanation of this
problem that 60 years old knows more people and more facts than 16 years old and because access
to LTM is limited

Slide 2

But it logically assume that :

“The more you have to remember, the easier it is to forget”

On a study found that the age of fifty can remember fifteen words on a grocery (LTM Improved)

But the older one after fifth decade the subject typically forget. This loss is not as profound as is
commonly believe

Otherwise the same study found that it is no difference between young and old in their LTM ability
when they were asked to recall the list after 40 minutes

Slide 3

the memory constrains that getting older can seem to be primarily to Short Term Memory

STM refers to limitation on inputting the material to be recalled

the impact of aging on lexical recall indicate that language is still very strong, even the natural
decline that accompanies the loss of psysical and mentall abilities,

“remember, we cannot measure aging directly by chronological year.”

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