Aging and Neurocognition Lab

Congratulations to Sharbel for being selected in the  summer 2021 cohort of Community-Academic Scholars, an initiative organized by the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute (IHSI)! Over the summer, Sharbel will work with Dr. Mudar and Margaret Danilovich, Senior Director, CJE Senior Life, on the project titled, "Benefits of social engagement using video-technology for older adults with and without mild cognitive impairment". Congratulations again Sharbel!

 Congratulations to Shraddha for her first first-author publication titled, "Cognitive Flexibility and Inhibition in Age-Related Hearing Loss" in Geriatrics .  Abstract:  Growing evidence suggests alterations in cognitive control processes in individuals with varying degrees of age-related hearing loss (ARHL); however, alterations in those with unaided mild ARHL are understudied. The current study examined two cognitive control processes, cognitive flexibility, and inhibition, in 21 older adults with unaided mild ARHL and 18 age- and education-matched normal hearing (NH) controls. All participants underwent comprehensive audiological and cognitive evaluations including Trail Making Test-B, Verbal Fluency, Stroop, and two Go/NoGo tasks. Group differences in cognitive flexibility and inhibition as well as associations between peripheral and central hearing ability and measures of cognitive flexibility and inhibition were investigated. Findings revealed that the ARHL group took sig