LaGrone Susan, Spieler Daniel H
School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
Psychol Aging. 2006 Dec;21(4):804-9. doi: 10.1037/0882-7974.21.4.804.
The influence of age on word retrieval was investigated with a speeded picture naming study. Five hundred forty-one pictures were presented to young and older adults, and the influence of name agreement and name frequency was analyzed by multiple regression. The results showed that both name agreement and name frequency are significant predictors of picture naming performance in young and older adults. The results also suggest that older adults are more strongly influenced by name agreement than are young adults. These results indicate that competition during lexical selection may be a particularly age-sensitive stage in language production.
通过一项快速图片命名研究，调查了年龄对词汇检索的影响。向年轻人和老年人展示了541张图片，并通过多元回归分析了名称一致性和名称频率的影响。结果表明，名称一致性和名称频率都是年轻人和老年人图片命名表现的重要预测因素。结果还表明，老年人比年轻人更容易受到名称一致性的影响。这些结果表明，词汇选择过程中的竞争可能是语言产生中一个对年龄特别敏感的阶段。
