Mitchell S. Sommers's scientific contributions
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Publication (1)
Three experiments were conducted within the framework of the Neighborhood Activation Model of spoken word recognition to examine how the structural organization of the mental lexicon may contribute to age‐related declines in spoken language processing. According to the model, lexically hard words are items that are phonetically similar to many othe...
Citations
... Normal aging leads to various changes in cognitive functioning; some aspects of language processing improve, while others decline. For instance, while vocabulary continues to grow throughout the lifespan (Harada et al., 2013;Kavé, 2022), perception of familiar words usually degrades (McLaughlin et al., 2022;Revill & Spieler, 2012;Sommers, 1996;Wingfield et al., 1991). ...
