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Denise C. Park, Professor of Psychology.
Dr. Park's career-long interest has been in the study of cognitive aging, with a profound interest in applications of basic laboratory research. She has an extensive background in use of intervention techniques to improve medical adherence and communications, and also conducts research on how social processes and cultural context bias cognition in older adults.
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Arthur Kramer, Professor of Psychology.
Dr. Kramer has studied cognitive aging for his entire career and has a long history of highly-cited publications and NIA funding. Much of his research has a strong applied bent. He has most recently conducted research on the role of exercise in promoting cognitive health as well as the relationship between cognitive training and long-term cognitive function.
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Aaron Benjamin, Professor of Psychology.
Dr. Benjamin studies human learning and memory. He and his students use empirical and computational approaches to understand the how aging affects memory judgments and metamemory.
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Chi Yue Chiu, Professor of Psychology.
Dr. Chiu is a social psychologist with a strong interest in the impact of socio-cultural processes on cognition. Dr. Chiu's interests are important in understanding the contribution of cultural values and stereotypes to healthy minds.
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Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko, Professor and Chair of Kinesiology.
Professor Chodzko-Zajko has a distinguished career focused on health and fitness in the elderly, with a particular interest in the relationship between exercise in old age and quality of life and information processing. He edits the Journal of Aging and Physical Activity and also chairs the Aging Initiative, a broad-based Chancellor's Initiative at UIUC.
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Gary S. Dell, Professor of Psychology.
Dr. Dell is a prominent national expert on the role of experience in language processing. He has recently begun applied work, along with Art Kramer, on the linguistic aspects of a global positioning system designed to provide directions to older adults in automobiles for General Motors.
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Edward F. Diener, Alumni Professor of Psychology.
Professor Diener is an internationally-recognized scholar, if not the world's foremost expert, in the area of happiness and positive psychology. He has received numerous research and teaching awards and has studied happiness across cultures and age. He has an abiding interest in aging research and believes in the importance of happiness to the maintenance of healthy minds.
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Monica Fabiani, Professor of Psychology, and Gabriele Gratton, Associate Professor of Psychology.
Together, Drs. Fabiani and Gratton collaborated to pioneer EROS (event-related optical signals), a sophisticated, novel tool that provides non-invasive mapping of human brain function. Recent research using the EROS technique showed that older adults have a more difficult time tuning out distractions than younger adults.
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Kara Federmeier, Assistant Professor of Psychology.
Dr. Federmeier's research interest is in how language comprehension changes with age. Her lab is studying which aspects of language change most with normal aging, how individuals differ, what predicts those differences, and how language and memory abilities are linked.
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Ying-yi Hong, Associate Professor of Psychology.
Dr. Hong is a social psychologist with strong interest in the role of culture in construction of self and mind, and the role of cultural values in social function. Her interest in culture and cognition will be extended to the interface between aging and culture in cognitive health.
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Edward McAuley, Professor of Kinesiology.
Professor McAuley's research interests are in physical activity, aging, and psychological function. His work takes a social cognitive approach to understanding the determinants of physical activity behavior and the underlying mechanisms associated with physical activity effects on well-being and quality of life. He and Professor Kramer have collaborated extensively on the relationship between fitness and cognition.
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Daniel Morrow, Associate Professor, Institute of Aviation.
Dr. Morrow was recently hired at UIUC in 2002. He contributes to the center for healthy minds in terms of his long-term research program on expertise in aging pilots, as well as an extensive research program on medication adherence and patient communication.
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Elizabeth Stine-Morrow, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology.
Dr. Stine-Morrow has a long history of research in cognitive aging, specifically examining adult age differences in language processing.
Her research program has several facets, addressing questions such as how age-graded change in working memory capacity can contribute to age
differences in memory for spoken language and written text, how older adult readers can shift their reading strategies to maintain high
levels of comprehension and memory, and how cognitive and social engagement can promote the ability to be an effective learner into late life.
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