Lydia & Shraddha attended the Society for Neuroscience 49th annual meeting in Chicago and each presented posters. Great job representing the lab! Lydia presented a poster titled “Theta, alpha, and beta band oscillations related to value-directed strategic processing in cognitively normal younger and older adults”. Shraddha presented a poster titled “Voxel-based morphometry in age-associated hearing […]
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AANCL & Friends Walk to End Alzheimer’s
The Aging and Neurocognition Lab and friends participated in the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s in Champaign-Urbana. As always, it was an uplifting experience to see everyone supporting one another and to see how many people are committed to fighting Alzheimer’s disease.
Rogers & Mudar receive NIDILRR grant aimed at helping older adults with cognitive impairment
A huge congratulations to Drs. Wendy Rogers and Raksha Mudar on receiving a collaborative grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) with their collaborators at Weill Cornell Medicine and Florida State University. Drs. Rogers and Mudar are the principle investigators on the grant for the University of Illinois team. This […]
Lydia awarded UIUC dissertation completion fellowship
Lydia has been awarded a UIUC Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship. This fellowship is given based on the significance of the dissertation research and academic productivity and progress. It will provide Lydia with a one-year stipend allowing her to focus on her dissertation work. Congratulations on your hard work Lydia! For more information on the […]
Andrea and Adam graduate
Andrea and Adam, undergraduates in the lab, graduated with degrees in Speech and Hearing Science. Both of them will continue onto graduate school for Master’s degrees! Congratulations Andrea and Adam! You will truly be missed in the lab.
Shraddha and Lizzy receive Speech and Hearing Science awards
Shraddha has been awarded the Ehud and Janie Yairi International Graduate Student Award, which is granted to exemplary international doctoral students in SHS. Lizzy has been award the Phyllis Ariens Burkhead Memorial Fellowship, which is granted to students who have already attained a master’s degree and are now pursuing a PhD in SHS. Congratulations to […]
Poster presented at the Gerontological Society of America
Dr. Raksha Mudar (PI of AANCL), Dr. Wendy Rogers, and OneClick.chat co-founder and CEO Dillon Myers presented a poster entitled “Social Engagement Through Video Chat for Older Individuals With and Without Cognitive Impairment” at the Gerontological Society of America in Boston, MA. This poster is a result of the collaboration with Dr. Wendy Rogers and […]
Paper published on neural outcomes of cognitive training in aMCI
Dr. Raksha Mudar, Lydia Nguyen, and collaborators published a paper in Brain Research entitled “Event-related neural oscillation changes following reasoning training in individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment”. Click here for the paper. Congratulations to everyone for all of their hard work!
AANCL & Friends participate in Walk to End Alzheimer’s
The Aging and Neurocognition Lab and other members from the Department of Speech and Hearing Science participated in the Walk to End Alzheimer’s in Champaign-Urbana! It was a huge success as always!
Lydia & Shraddha attend AAIC
Lydia and Shraddha attended the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Chicago, IL. Lydia presented a poster entitled “Strategy-Based Cognitive Training Effects on Event-Related Neural Oscillations in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment”. Shraddha presented a poster entitled “Relationship Between Use of Inherent Memory Strategies and Memory Performance in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment”. Great job to both of […]