RESEARCH TRAINING IN COGNITIVE AGING

描述(由申请人提供)：佐治亚理工学院研究培训计划的目标是为培养认知老化研究的博士后和博士后提供良好的学术环境。由于认知老化对于理解成人发育和衰老的重要性，需要更好地理解各种认知过程与衰老之间的关系。目前的方案提供这一重要领域的研究培训。佐治亚理工学院的核心教员在认知老龄化的不同领域提供专业知识，包括记忆、语言、问题解决、注意力、技能学习、人为因素、个体差异、元认知、社会认知、认知和衰老的神经心理学和神经科学，以及发展方法论。 学员将接触到认知和发展心理学的核心课程，认知老化的专业课程和研讨会，每周的研究研讨会，与来访的科学家的座谈，以及强大的方法论课程。这项计划已经资助了15年。在此期间，资助了22名博士后和11名博士后实习生。本次续签申请要求提供同等级别的培训支持：5名博士后实习生和2名博士后实习生。自1997年的上一次竞争性申请以来，佐治亚理工学院的认知老龄化项目已经失去了两名核心教员，但这些教员已经被取而代之，从而扩大了该项目的广度。此外，已有7名新教师成为培训计划的顾问教师，总共有10名顾问教师可供学生作为导师。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the Georgia Tech research-training program is to provide an excellent academic context for training predoctoral and postdoctoral students for research in Cogntive Aging. Because of the importance of cognitive aging to understanding adult development and aging, a better understanding of the relationship among various cognitive processes and aging is needed. The current program provides research training in this important area. The core faculty at Georgia Tech provides expertise in a diverse set of domains in Cognitive Aging, including memory, language, problem solving, attention, skill learning, human factors, individual differences, metacognition, social cognition, neuropsychology and neuroscience of cognition and aging, and developmental methodology. Trainees are exposed to core courses in cognitive and developmental psychology, specialty courses and seminars in cognitive aging, weekly research seminars, colloquia with visiting scientists, and a strong curriculum in methodology. The program has been funded for fifteen years. During that period twenty-two predoctoral and eleven postdoctoral trainees have been supported. The same level of training support is requested in this renewal application: five predoctoral trainees and two postdoctoral trainees. Since the last competitive application in 1997, the Cognitive Aging program at Georgia Tech has lost two core faculty members, but these faculty have been replaced increasing the breadth of the program. In addition, seven new faculty have become consultant faculty in the training program with ten-consultant faculty in total available to students as mentors.