User profiles for M. Shafto

Michael G. Shafto

NASA (retired June 29, 2013)
Verified email at piltdown.com
Cited by 2463

Language in the aging brain: the network dynamics of cognitive decline and preservation

MA Shafto, LK Tyler - Science, 2014 - science.org
… Marslen-Wilson, MG Shafto, and S. Shafto for helpful comments on an early draft and D.
Samu … Shafto for helpful comments on an early draft and D. Samu and D. Meunier for help with …

[PDF][PDF] Draft modeling, simulation, information technology & processing roadmap

M Shafto, M Conroy, R Doyle, E Glaessgen… - Technology …, 2010 - emacromall.com
M with projected mission lifetime total savings of over $18M In many of the above examples,
onboard mission planning and execution has been integrated with IDU to enable an overall …

[HTML][HTML] The Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) data repository: Structural and functional MRI, MEG, and cognitive data from a cross …

…, N Williams, R Cusack, T Auer, MA Shafto, M Dixon… - neuroimage, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper describes the data repository for the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience
(Cam-CAN) initial study cohort. The Cam-CAN Stage 2 repository contains multi-modal (…

Language and aging

DM Burke, MA Shafto - The handbook of aging and cognition, 2011 - taylorfrancis.com
Language in old age has been an active research area since early experimental investigations
in cognitive aging (eg, Craik & Masani, 1967; Riegel & Riegel, 1964). This is undoubtedly …

[HTML][HTML] The Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) study protocol: a cross-sectional, lifespan, multidisciplinary examination of healthy cognitive …

MA Shafto, LK Tyler, M Dixon, JR Taylor, JB Rowe… - BMC neurology, 2014 - Springer
Background As greater numbers of us are living longer, it is increasingly important to understand
how we can age healthily. Although old age is often stereotyped as a time of declining …

Aging and language production

DM Burke, MA Shafto - Current directions in psychological …, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
Experimental research and older adults' reports of their own experience suggest that the
ability to produce the spoken forms of familiar words declines with aging. Older adults …

Relations between emotion, memory, and attention: Evidence from taboo Stroop, lexical decision, and immediate memory tasks

DG MacKay, M Shafto, JK Taylor, DE Marian… - Memory & …, 2004 - Springer
… errors occurred on only 2.91% of the trials but were more frequent for taboo words (M 5.00%,
SD 7.2%) than for neutral words [M … However, correct RTs did not differ for neutral words (M

Preserving syntactic processing across the adult life span: the modulation of the frontotemporal language system in the context of age-related atrophy

LK Tyler, MA Shafto, B Randall, P Wright… - Cerebral …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Although widespread neural atrophy is an inevitable consequence of normal aging, not all
cognitive abilities decline as we age. For example, spoken language comprehension tends to …

Using response time measures to assess" guilty knowledge".

TL Seymour, CM Seifert, MG Shafto… - Journal of Applied …, 2000 - psycnet.apa.org
How can a suspect's guilt or innocence be reliably tested? The validity of the polygraph,
which measures changes in physiological arousal during a" guilty knowledge" test, is …

On the tip-of-the-tongue: Neural correlates of increased word-finding failures in normal aging

MA Shafto, DM Burke, EA Stamatakis… - Journal of cognitive …, 2007 - direct.mit.edu
Tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) experiences are frustrating word-finding failures where people are
temporarily unable to produce a word they are certain they know. TOT frequency increases …