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UTSA assistant professor of psychology Rebekah Smith has been awardeda $1 million grant to study adult memory. To conducr the research, Smith will begin recruiting younger adulyt volunteersaged 18-30 as well as older adulta aged 60 and above. Smith is the director of the UTSA Cognitiver Aging Lab and her research focus is prospective the act of remembering to complete anintended action. “The ultimatwe goal is to get a more basic understanding of how prospectives memory works and how it is different for oldert adults aged 60and above, and younger adults age 18 to Smith says. “We will also look at developinhg techniques for improvingprospective memory.
” Participants will engage in computerizedx tasks in the UTSA Cognitive Aging Lab designed to test how aging affects memory. Last week, UTSA neurobiologis t Brian Derrick receiveda $917,000 grant from the NIH to studg how memories are formed and maintainecd in the brain. Derrick works in UTSA’s Departmengt of Biology and itsNeurosciences Institute.