Internatl Conf.on the Future of Cognitive Aging Research

认知衰老研究的未来国际会议

• 批准号: 6941023
• 负责人: Duane F Alwin
• 金额: $ 4.5万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-02-01 至 2007-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6941023
• 关键词: aging; cognition; geriatrics; meeting /conference /symposium; psychological aspect of aging; travel

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests support for a multidisciplinary working conference on the future of cognitive aging research to be held at Pennsylvania State University in the spring of 2005. The conference will be cosponsored by the Population Research Institute and the Gerontology Center of The Pennsylvania State University, and the Center for Demography of Health and Aging of the University of Wisconsin. Building upon the mandates set by the National Research Council's Committee on Future Directions for Cognitive Research on Aging, articulated in The Aging Mind: Opportunities in Cognitive Research (National Research Council, 2000), the conference will explore further the state of our knowledge with an eye toward developing a shared multidisciplinary agenda for the next few decades of research on cognitive aging. We have invited a number of the leading international experts on cognitive aging representing the fields of developmental psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, behavioral genetics, demography, gerontology, sociology, economics, biostatistics, and epidemiology to gather for a two and one-half day working conference focusing on the state of the field and building a multidisciplinary agenda for future research on cognitive aging. The conference has attracted top researchers from Australia, England, Scotland, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States, countries where the majority of research on cognitive aging is done. The main objectives of the conference are to explore: (1) the current state of the cognitive theorizing as related to processes of aging, (2) an empirical assessment of what is known about cognitive aging phenomenon in terms of changes and causes, (3) methodological critiques of research designs and measurement models on which our current knowledge base rests, (4) the discussion of alternative designs and innovative lines of interdisciplinary research that promise how we can know more, and (5) the critical issues of the data needs for the future. We expect to disseminate the information resulting from this conference widely in both traditional academic outlets (e.g. an edited volume) and through the organization of GSA symposia on the topic, as well as press releases at the time of the conference and executive summaries of the conference results for NIH use.

描述(由申请人提供)：本申请请求支持将于2005年春季在宾夕法尼亚州立大学举行的关于认知老化研究未来的多学科工作会议。这次会议将由宾夕法尼亚州立大学人口研究所和老年学中心以及威斯康星大学人口健康和老龄化中心共同主办。在国家研究理事会老龄化认知研究未来方向委员会(《老龄化思维：认知研究中的机会》(国家研究理事会，2000))所规定的任务的基础上，会议将进一步探讨我们的知识状况，着眼于为未来几十年的认知老龄化研究制定一个共同的多学科议程。我们邀请了代表发展心理学、精神病学、神经科学、行为遗传学、人口学、老年学、社会学、经济学、生物统计学和流行病学等领域的一些领先的国际认知老龄化专家齐聚一堂，举行为期两天半的工作会议，重点关注该领域的现状，并为未来认知老龄化研究建立一个多学科的议程。这次会议吸引了来自澳大利亚、英格兰、苏格兰、德国、瑞士和美国的顶尖研究人员，这些国家对认知衰老的研究大多是在这些国家进行的。会议的主要目的是探索：(1)与衰老过程相关的认知理论化的现状，(2)从变化和原因的角度对认知衰老现象的已知情况进行实证评估，(3)对研究设计和测量模型的方法论评论，我们目前的知识库所基于的研究设计和测量模型，(4)关于跨学科研究的替代设计和创新路线的讨论，以及(5)未来数据需求的关键问题。我们希望通过传统的学术渠道(如编辑后的卷)和组织GSA专题讨论会，以及会议时的新闻稿和会议成果的执行摘要，广泛传播这次会议产生的信息，供国家卫生研究院使用。