Past research
Earlier investigations of language, memory, aging and human reasoning helped shape the questions we ask today.
Alzheimer’s disease and aging
Earlier work examined interactions among language processing, memory, and semantic knowledge in aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Topics included discourse reference, sentence comprehension, and the production and comprehension of nouns and verbs.
Behavioral and computational approaches examined the contributions of memory limitations and semantic impairment to comprehension and production.
Related publications →Human reasoning
Research on reasoning examined domain specialization and the relationship between memory, perspective, and task performance. Studies of the Wason selection task and deontic reasoning addressed whether specialized behavior requires specialized cognitive modules.
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