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X-WR-CALNAME:CSD Talk featuring Michele Diaz\, Ph.D.
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DESCRIPTION:Featuring\n\nMichele Diaz\, Ph.D.\, is the Director of Human Im
 aging and an Associate Professor of Psychology\, Linguistics\, and Neurosc
 ience at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on the ne
 ural representation of language and how this representation differs across
  the lifespan. In particular\, she is interested in age-related difference
 s in phonological and semantic aspects of language production. Her lab com
 bines behavioral\, neuropsychological\, and neuroimaging measures to exami
 ne the relations between age\, cognition\, and the brain. She has also inv
 estigated contributions of the right hemisphere to language by studying fi
 gurative language\, discourse\, and novelty. Finally\, she worked on the B
 iomedical Informatics Research Network focusing on best practices in neuro
 imaging and multi-site research.\n\nTitle: Neural and behavioral age-relat
 ed differences in language production\n\nAlthough decline in cognitive fun
 ctions is often observed with aging\, language functions show a pattern of
  both impaired and spared performance. Semantic knowledge\, reflected in v
 ocabulary and general comprehension\, are well maintained throughout adult
 hood. In contrast\, older adults show impairments in language production\,
  such as in increased slips of the tongue and increased pauses during spee
 ch which may reflect phonological impairment. This asymmetric pattern sugg
 ests a fundamental difference in the cognitive and neural organization of 
 these two language abilities. In this talk\, I will discuss our work which
  has looked at semantic and phonological decisions\, as well as more recen
 t work that has examined inherent aspects of words\, such as lexical frequ
 ency and neighborhood effects (phonological and semantic). Broadly\, our w
 ork examines how cognition\, behavior\, and neural factors relate to each 
 other and how they contribute to language production in healthy younger an
 d older adults.
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LOCATION:Belo Center for New Media (BMC)\, 1.202  John R. Fleming Lecture H
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SUMMARY:CSD Talk featuring Michele Diaz\, Ph.D.
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CATEGORIES:Academics
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