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'Tip-of-the-tongue' moments less likely in fitter older people

Dr Katrien Segaert, Lecturer in the School of Psychology, describes, in The Conversation, her research showing that fitter older people are less likely to have "It's on the tip-of-my-tongue" moments than less fit older people.

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Dr Katrien Segaert, Lecturer in the School of Psychology, describes in The Conversation her research showing that fitter older people are less likely to have "It's on the tip-of-my-tongue" moments than less fit older people.

Dr Segaert says, "My research focuses on sentence level language processing, mostly syntactic and semantic processing. I am especially interested in how these core language processes work, how the workings change throughout the lifespan, and how they are instantiated in the brain."