Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0984844

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0984844

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Everyday cognition in older adulthood: Mechanisms contributing to the age-prospective memory paradox. Australia is faced with an ageing population, and thus an increasingly important goal is ageing well and ageing productively. The proposed research will clarify why older adults perform extremely well on prospective memory (PM) tasks based in everyday environments, but very poorly on PM tasks that take place in the controlled situation of the laboratory. Advancing our understanding of why this 'paradoxical' pattern of age effects occurs will help clarify how other aspects of everyday cognition in older adulthood may be optimised, and consequently take an important step in improving the lives of older adults. The results will also inform development of rehabilitation strategies for clinical groups who present with PM difficulties.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-04-2011

End Date: 31-03-2015

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $330,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Psychology | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Developmental Psychology And Ageing

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Health related to ageing | Behavioural and cognitive sciences |

Other Keywords

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Developmental Psychology And Ageing | Health related to ageing | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Psychology

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