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Preface; 1. Theories of information processing and theories of aging; 2.Effects of aging on verbal abilities: examination of the psychometricliterature; 3. Aging and individual differences in memory for writtendiscourse; 4. Geriatric psycholinguistics: syntactic limitations of oral andwritten language; 5. Aging and memory activation: the priming of semantic andepisodic memories; 6. Automatic and effortful semantic processes in old age:experimental and naturalistic approaches; 7. Integrating information fromdiscourse: do older adults show deficits?; 8. Comprehension of pragmaticimplications in young and older adults; 9. Capacity theory and the processingof inferences; 10. Age differences in memory for texts: production deficiencyor processing liminations?; 11. Episodic memory and knowledge interactionsacross adulthood; 12. The disorder of naming in Alzheimer's disease; 13.Language and memory processing in semile dementia Alzheimer's type; 14.Patterns of language and memory in old age; Author index; Subject index.