University of Groningen
Idioms in the Aging Brain
la Roi, Amélie
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10.33612/diss.168090845
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1. Elderly adults need to rely on context information to keep up with the high pace of language processing (Chapter 2, this thesis)
2. Age-related decline in cognitive abilities does not directly entail age-related decline in language processing (Chapters 2, 3, and 5, this thesis)
3. Language experience serves as a protective factor against age-related decline in language processing (Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5, this thesis)
4. The strongest decline in language processing already takes place in middle age (Chapter 4, this thesis)
5. To get a clearer picture of the language abilities in healthy aging, age should be studied as a continuum (Chapter 4, this thesis)
6. The first detrimental effects of cognitive aging on language abilities become visible in the time course of language processing (Chapters 4 and 5, this thesis)
7. Om succesvol een PhD-project te kunnen afronden moet je engelengeduld hebben, een collega als rots in de branding, zo nu en dan een dikke huid, maar bovenal een lange adem.
8. Greatest teacher, failure is - master Yoda (Star Wars)
9. Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old - Jonathan Swift (Gulliver’s Travels)
