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Hung, Pei-Fang – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined idiom understanding in 120 neurologically healthy adults, ages 20-29 (20s Group), 40-49 (40s Group), 60-69 (60s Group), and 80-89 (80s Group) years old. Each participant was administered a familiarity task, definition explanation task, mental imagery task, and forced-choice comprehension task. Twenty idioms, 10 transparent and…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Imagery, Familiarity, Older Adults