# COGNITIVE AGING--REAL TIME LANGUAGE PROCESSING

> **NIH NIH R01** · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · 1993 · $137,957

## Abstract

The broad purpose of the proposed research is to contribute to the
understanding of cognitive aging in terms of the elemental processing
systems that serve language :comprehension.  For both young and healthy
elderly adults, the research will focus on the temporal parameters of
information access for isolated words; on the manner by which information
provided by sentence context interacts in real-time with word meaning
activation; on real-time syntactic analysis; and on real-time inference
formation at the level of discourse.  The research will also examine if
increased memory loads differentially affect processing at the syntactic
and discourse levels and if young and healthy elderly adults fare
differently in the face of increased memory loads at each of these two
levels.

This program of research should yield information of potential relevance to
the formation of screening devices for distinguishing early signs of
pathological aging from normal age-related changes, allowing an assessment
of subtle alterations to processing resources, before they become evident
in every-day behavior.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 3122381
- **Project number:** 5R01AG010496-02
- **Recipient organization:** BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
- **SAM.gov UEI:** MXLZGAMFEKN5
- **Principal Investigator:** EDGAR B ZURIF
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 1993
- **Award amount:** $137,957
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1992-05-01 → 1997-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3122381

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 3122381, COGNITIVE AGING--REAL TIME LANGUAGE PROCESSING (5R01AG010496-02). Retrieved via MORVS 2026-10-25 from https://api.morvs.ai/grant/nih/3122381. Licensed CC0.

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