Abstract

VIVAS, Jorge Ricardo; MARTINEZ, Sandra; KRZERMEN, Deisy  and  LIZARRALDE, Francisco. Semantic Stability in the Production of Semantic Features between Senior and Young Adults. Av. Psicol. Latinoam. [online]. 2020, vol.38, n.2, pp.82-100.  Epub Feb 17, 2021. ISSN 1794-4724.  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/apl/a.7368.

In recent years, there has been a profuse research on semantic memory in old age. In this framework, this paper addressed the production of semantic features and the variations in verbal fluency in normal cognitive aging. There are numerous studies on fluency, but there are fewer that compare the semantic distance between concepts in populations of young people and seniors in the same region. The purpose of this paper is to compare and analyze the semantic distance between both age groups, and the semantic richness measured by the fluency, given to 130 concepts by 90 cognitively conserved adults over 65 years old, with the features produced by 120 young adults, as found in the Normas de Producción de Atributos Semánticos en Español. Semantic features were empirically collected in written form and correspond to the domains living and non-living beings. Significant differences were found in verbal fluency in favor of the youngest, in coincidence with what was expressed in the literature, and stability in the semantic constitution between the concepts given by both age groups, as a novel aspect.

Keywords : Features; semantic distance; verbal fluency; seniors; young adults.

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