SENTENCE PROCESSING IN AGING AND DAT

描述(改编自调查人员摘要)：建议的研究 在这里将调查老年受试者和患者的能力 阿尔茨海默氏型痴呆(DAT)理解句子和使用 完成任务的句子的意义。它将研究不同的 句子理解任务的各个方面，提供有关 老年人和DAT患者的句法加工能力 形式和句子意义。它将考察两国之间的关系 儿童言语工作记忆和句子理解障碍的研究 这些种群。它还将提供有关以下方面变化的新信息 老年人句子理解过程的神经基础 受试者和DAT患者。这些研究的结果将会增加 我们对句子理解过程的本质的理解 衰老和DAT，以及这些过程的神经基础的性质 人口。

DESCRIPTION (adapted from investigator's abstract): The research proposed here will investigate the abilities of elderly subjects and patients with Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type (DAT) to understand sentences and to use the meaning of sentences to accomplish tasks. It will study different aspects of sentence comprehension tasks, providing new information about the abilities of elderly subjects and patients with DAT to process syntactic form and sentence meaning. It will examine the relationship between impairments in verbal working memory and those of sentence comprehension in these populations. It will also provide new information about changes in the neural basis for the process of sentence comprehension in elderly subjects and patients with DAT. The results of these studies will increase our understanding of the nature of the sentence comprehension process in aging and DAT, and the nature of the neural basis for this process in these populations.