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The Aging and Adult Language Disorders Lab is concerned with the interaction between cognitive functions, such as memory and attention, and language processing ability in healthy aging adults as well as individuals with aphasia. Two main lines of research are conducted in the lab. The first line of my research program focuses on identifying changes in discourse processing across the adult lifespan and identifying why these changes occur. The second focuses on identifying the interaction between cognitive operations and linguistic units involved in discourse processing in adults with aphasia and then establishing and applying a treatment protocol to invoke change in discourse processing performance of adults with aphasia.