{"product_id":"changing-minds-isbn-9780262539586","title":"Changing Minds","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhy language ability remains resilient and how it shapes our lives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe acquire our native language, seemingly without effort, in infancy and early childhood. Language is our constant companion throughout our lifetime, even as we age. Indeed, compared with other aspects of cognition, language seems to be fairly resilient through the process of aging. In \u003ci\u003eChanging Minds\u003c\/i\u003e, Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts examine how aging affects language—and how language affects aging. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKreuz and Roberts report that what appear to be changes in an older person's language ability are actually produced by declines in such other cognitive processes as memory and perception. Some language abilities, including vocabulary size and writing ability, may even improve with age. And certain language activities—including reading fiction and engaging in conversation—may even help us live fuller and healthier lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKreuz and Roberts explain the cognitive processes underlying our language ability, exploring in particular how changes in these processes lead to changes in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. They consider, among other things, the inability to produce a word that's on the tip of your tongue—and suggest that the increasing incidence of this with age may be the result of a surfeit of world knowledge. For example, older people can be better storytellers, and (something to remember at a family reunion) their perceived tendency toward off-topic verbosity may actually reflect communicative goals.\u003c\/p\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Prologue: How Aging Affects Language . . . and How Language Affects   Aging\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Setting the Stage\u003cbr\u003e Language by Design\u003cbr\u003e Comparing Apples to Oranges\u003cbr\u003e Components of Cognition\u003cbr\u003e The Compensation of Language\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: The Language of Sight and Sound\u003cbr\u003e Do You Hear What I See?\u003cbr\u003e A Look at Hearing\u003cbr\u003e Tinnitus\u003cbr\u003e Voice Quality\u003cbr\u003e Speaking of Vision\u003cbr\u003e Presbyopia\u003cbr\u003e Making Sense of Feelings\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: The Story of Speech\u003cbr\u003e Word Finding\u003cbr\u003e Word Naming\u003cbr\u003e Speech Disfluency\u003cbr\u003e Stuttering\u003cbr\u003e Aphasia\u003cbr\u003e Dyslexia\u003cbr\u003e Foreign Accent Syndrome\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Word Domination\u003cbr\u003e Stressed Out\u003cbr\u003e Spelling Ability\u003cbr\u003e Vocabulary Size\u003cbr\u003e Verbal Fluency\u003cbr\u003e Grammatical Complexity\u003cbr\u003e Off-Topic Verbosity\u003cbr\u003e Telling Stories\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Using Language\u003cbr\u003e Pragmatic Competence\u003cbr\u003e Nonliteral Language\u003cbr\u003e Can Spring Chickens Teach Old Dogs New Tricks?\u003cbr\u003e Elderspeak\u003cbr\u003e Living with More Than One Language\u003cbr\u003e The Benefits of Bilingualism?\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: The Write Stuff\u003cbr\u003e Healing Through Language\u003cbr\u003e Reminiscing\u003cbr\u003e Late Bloomers\u003cbr\u003e Writer's Block\u003cbr\u003e The Destroyer of Minds\u003cbr\u003e Lessons from the Nuns\u003cbr\u003e Fiction is Stronger Than Truth\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e About the Authors\u003cbr\u003e References\"\u003ci\u003eChanging Minds\u003c\/i\u003e provides a clear understanding of the connection between aging and language. Most importantly, it provides sets of practices that can help you harness the power of language to live longer and better.\" \u003cb\u003e – Dan Buettner, author of \u003ci\u003e The Blue Zones: 9 Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who've Lived the Longest \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts have done it again — and made it look easy! Their new book, \u003ci\u003eChanging Minds\u003c\/i\u003e, is a superbly written and highly accessible overview of a neglected topic, namely, how aging affects a person’s ability to communicate through language. Anyone who is getting older or who interacts with anyone who is getting older — and, of course, this is everyone — should read this fun and informative book.\" \u003cb\u003e – John Kounios, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain\u003c\/i\u003e; Professor of Psychology, Drexel University \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"From the first page, I found myself reading this book with the same care and enthusiasm as I would a novel. It is a well-researched, well-crafted, and utterly fascinating exploration into how we use words and how language becomes us as we age. It goes beyond the structure of language and language acquisition and change and instead gives a rich cultural context necessary to appreciate the complexity of language.\" \u003cb\u003e – Kate de Medeiros, O’Toole Family Professor, Scripps Gerontology Center, Miami University, Ohio \u003c\/b\u003eRoger Kreuz is Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology at the University of Memphis. He is the coauthor (with Richard Roberts) of \u003ci\u003eBecoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGetting Through: The Pleasures and Perils of Cross-Cultural Communication\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eChanging Minds: How Aging Affects Language and How Language Affects Aging\u003c\/i\u003e (all published by the MIT Press).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Roberts is a Foreign Service Officer currently serving as the Public Affairs Officer at the US Consulate General in Okinawa, Japan. He is the coauthor (with Roger Kreuz) of of \u003ci\u003eBecoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGetting Through: The Pleasures and Perils of Cross-Cultural Communication\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by the MIT Press.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300194865381,"sku":"NP9780262539586","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262539586.jpg?v=1767723557","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/changing-minds-isbn-9780262539586","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}