Age-related deficits in auditory confrontation naming
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Brenda Hanna-Pladdy1, Hyun Choi
1Landon Center on Aging, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA. bhpladdy@kumc.edu
Abstract:
The naming of manipulable objects in older and younger adults was evaluated across auditory, visual, and multisensory conditions. Older adults were less accurate and slower in naming across conditions, and all subjects were more impaired and slower to name action sounds than pictures or audiovisual combinations. Moreover, there was a sensory by age group interaction, revealing lower accuracy and increased latencies in auditory naming for older adults unrelated to hearing insensitivity but modest improvement to multisensory cues. These findings support age-related deficits in object action naming and suggest that auditory confrontation naming may be more sensitive than visual naming.
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