The Aging and Neurocognition Lab is happy to announce a collaboration between Dr. Raksha Mudar, Dr. Wendy Rogers, and OneClick.chat! The team was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. This grant will support a pilot study on the facilitators and barriers of […]

Happy graduation to both FanTing and Stephany!! We are all so proud of you both and cannot thank you enough for the work you have contributed to AANCL. We are so excited to see what else you both achieve, as we know this is just an early step in your promising path! Good luck with […]

Shraddha was awarded the Dean C. and Kathleen R. Garstecki Audiology Scholarship which recognizes outstanding graduate students in Audiology. Congratulations Shraddha!

Congratulations to undergrads in the lab who presented at this year’s Undergraduate Research Symposium! Stephany and Lauren presented a poster entitled “Impact of Age-Related Hearing Loss on Strategic Attention”. Julia and Andrea presented a poster entitled “Strategic Attention in Individuals with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment”.

The Aging and Neurocognition Lab presented a booth at this year’s Brain Awareness Day hosted by the UIUC Neuroscience Program. The booth consisted of an EEG-based game in which people try to move a ball “with their mind” and a Go/NoGo computerized task developed by the lab. The booth was a big hit with children […]

Lydia and FanTing attended the Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Association 58th Annual Convention to present their work. Lydia gave an oral presentation as part of the Student Initiated Research & Clinical Application (SIRCA) series entitled “Effects of Strategy-Based Cognitive Training in Mild Cognitive Impairment”. FanTing presented a poster entitled “Language Output in Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease”.

On October 7, the Alzheimer’s Association hosted a Walk to End Alzheimer’s here in Champaign (for more information about the Champaign walk click here or about the walks in general click here). Members of AANCL walked at the event to show our support for the cause! It was uplifting to see how many people care about ending this […]

As part of the Saffran Student Scholar Award that Lydia received, she attended and presented a poster at the 12th Annual Eleanor M. Saffran Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience and Rehabilitation of Communication Disorders at Temple University (Philadelphia, PA). Her poster was titled “Cognitive and Neural Alterations in Age-Associated Hearing Loss”.

Lydia, a PhD student in the lab, received the Saffran Student Scholar Award for the 12th Annual Eleanor M. Saffran Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience and Rehabilitation of Communication Disorders at Temple University. The award will include: registration to the conference, lunch with Dr. Lana Shekim, attendance at a pre-conference dinner with the speakers, travel support […]

Shraddha, a PhD student in the lab, received an Audiology/Hearing Science Research Travel Award which includes complimentary registration to attend the 2017 ASHA Convention in Los Angeles, California in November 2017.For more information, please visit the SHS page here.