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There has been an upsurge of interest in the aging process as it affects cognition. Most research attention has been focused on memory and relatively little has been focused on language in the elderly. This volume addresses both the research on language in old age relevant to memory, and memory research relevant to language in old age. The authors draw on a range of methodologies and compare young and older adults (both normal and demented). Representing the major perspectives in contemporary cognition theory, they raise such current issues as the role of awareness in memory and language, the relation between semantic and episodic memory, the distinction between automatic and attentional processes, and the usefulness of distinguishing among levels of processing. The book will be welcomed not only as an invaluable overview for cognitive and developmental psychologists, neuropsychologists and psycholinguists but also as a supplementary text for graduate students in cognitive science and gerontology.

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• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 'For the good and happy government' of Maryland
• Part I 'In the Infancy of This Plantation': 1632-1660
• 1 'A country ... newly planted'
• 2 'Divers occurrences and difficulties'
• Part II 'Lord Baltimore's Politick Maximes': 1660-1689
• 3 'For the most part good ordinary householders'
• 4 'To liken us to a conquered people'
• Part III 'Wee Your Majesties Most Humble and Loyall Subjects': 1689-1715; 5. 'By the name of the country borne'
• 6 'We more immediately represent the people'
• Epilogue: 'Our present happy protestant constitution'
• Appendixes
• A note on the sources
• Index

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As the North American population ages, there has been a concomitant increase in research into the cognitive aspects of aging, e.g., Aging and Cognitive Processes, ed. by F.I.M. Craik and S. Trelub (1982), and T.A. Salthouse's Adult Cognition: An Experimental Psychology of Human Aging (1982). Most of this research has focused on the effects of aging on memory. Language, Memory, and Aging is an attempt to extend the research domain into the related area of language processing. There is a great deal of good empirical information to be found in this book, most of it directed at examining the idea that age decrements in language processing are due to reductions in some type of processing capacity. No final answers are produced from either the empirical work or the theoretical overviews, although both the introductory and concluding chapters provide very good overviews. This is a must read for anyone interested in aging and cognitive deficits. -S. J. Lupker, University of Western Ontario