Discourse and Cognitive Database Across the Lifespan

描述（由申请人提供）：当前提案是对RFA-AG-12-005，“老龄化社会和行为数据集的二次分析和存档”的回应。本提案的目的是存档一个独特的认知和话语数据数据库，该数据库来源于资助项目R01 AG029476：“健康老龄化中的话语加工”。该数据库将包括人口统计数据、认知数据、数字媒体（音频和/或视频）以及来自近500名参与者的11种不同话语任务的话语转录。目标是将这个重要而丰富的数据集存档，以供更广泛的研究社区使用。由于几个原因，该数据库是独一无二的。它包括：(1)大量的参与者数据（N =约500）；(2)多种语篇类型（N = 11个语篇启发任务）；(3)所有研究参与者的数字媒体；(4)所有研究参与者的认知数据；(5)来自20 - 90岁10年年龄组（每个年龄组约70人）的大量参与者的数据。数据集的归档为老龄化研究提供了一个新的贡献，因为它将允许更广泛的研究社区扩展到社会心理学、社会学、人类学、老年学、健康科学和语言学，有机会观察成人一生中复杂的认知/语言行为。由此产生的跨学科和跨学科的研究与建议的存档数据集将

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The current proposal is in response to RFA-AG-12-005, "Secondary Analyses and Archiving of Social and Behavioral Datasets in Aging". The purpose of this proposal is to archive a unique database of cognitive and discourse data derived from the funded project, R01 AG029476: "Discourse Processing in Healthy Aging". The database will include demographic data, cognitive data, digital media (audio and/or video), and discourse transcriptions for 11 different discourse tasks from nearly 500 participants across the adult lifespan. The goal is to archive this significant and rich dataset for availability to a broaer research community. The database is unique for several reasons. It includes: (1) a large number of participant data (N = approx 500); (2) several types of discourse (N = 11 discourse elicitation tasks); (3) digital media for all study participants, (4) cognitive data for all study participants; and (5) data from a large number of participants across 10 year age cohorts from 20 - 90 years old (approx 70 in each age cohort). Archiving the dataset offers a novel contribution to the study of aging as it will permit a broader research community extending to social psychology, sociology, and anthropology, gerontology, health sciences, and linguistics the opportunity to observe complex cognitive/linguistic behaviors across the adult lifespan. The resulting interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research with the proposed archived datasets will expand our understanding of age-related changes across the adult lifespan. We propose to make the data available through the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA). The specific aims of the research proposal are to: (1) Prepare datasets and digital media files for archiving; (2) Prepare discourse transcription files for archiving; and (3) Prepare demographic and cognitive data files for archiving with NACDA. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This research serves to to archive a unique database of cognitive and discourse data across the adult lifespan. The archived dataset will offer a novel contribution to the study of aging as it will permit a broader research community extending to social psychology, sociology, and anthropology, gerontology, health sciences, and linguistics the opportunity to observe complex cognitive/linguistic behaviors across the adult lifespan. The resulting interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research with the archived datasets will expand our understanding of age-related changes across the adult lifespan.