Analogy perception serves as the basis for numerous other kinds of human thinking, reasoning and successful communication. Since it is a complex cognitive communicative task it would be worth exploring how the age effects the accuracy and speed of processing. Hence, the present study is to evaluate the effect of age on analogy perception. The objectives of the study were to explore age related changes in the accuracy and speed of analogy perception.

A cross-sectional study design. Participated are divided it into three groups based on their age. Group 1 consisted of 12 participants between the age group 20–30 years. Group 2 consisted of 10 participants between the age group 30–50 years. Group 3 consisted of 7 participants between the age group 60–75 years. 18 stimuli were on 18 different slides using the software called the paradigm experiment version 2.1.0.95 (86). The subjects were expected to read the entire conversational context and judge the interpretation of the used analogy from the four choices. Responses were recorded along with the time elapsed between the emergence of the slide and pressing the button to give the response. Reaction time were also noted. The data was collected from the participants was tabulated and analyzed on MSexcel.

The descriptive statistics was applied to analyse the accuracy and reaction time of the subjects of all the groups.

Analogy perception is an integral part of the successful communication. Studies have shown that analogies are a series of leaps involving high level perception, activation of concepts in long term memory, transfer to short term memory, partial and context-dependent unpacking of chunks, and then further high-level perception (Hofstader, 1996). We recommend usage of analogy mapping as a significant process which should be included in routine cognitive communicative assessments. This would surely enable us to understand various cognitive linguistic processes in a healthy as well as a pathologically ageing brain.