RESEARCH TRAINING IN COGNITIVE AGING

描述（由申请人提供）：该格鲁吉亚技术研究培训计划的目标是提供一个优秀的学术背景，培养博士前和博士后学生在认知老化的研究。由于认知老化对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。格鲁吉亚理工学院的核心教师提供认知老化领域的专业知识，包括记忆，语言，解决问题，注意力，技能学习，人为因素，个体差异，元认知，社会认知，神经心理学和认知和衰老的神经科学，以及发展方法。 学员接触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，与访问科学家的座谈会，以及强大的方法论课程。该计划已资助了15年。在此期间，22名博士前和11名博士后学员得到了支持。 在这一更新申请中要求相同水平的培训支持：五名博士前学员和两名博士后学员。自1997年最后一次竞争性申请以来，格鲁吉亚理工学院的认知老化项目已经失去了两名核心教员，但这些教员已经被替换，增加了项目的广度。此外，七个新的教师已成为顾问教师的培训计划与十顾问教师在总可供学生作为导师。

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.