The National Institutes of Health awards a five-year, $1 million grant to Rebekah Smith, Assistant Professor of the National Institutes of Health Psychology, University of Texas at San Antonio to study about adult memory. The research is conducted over 18-30year old adults and 60 and above old adults. Smith directing the UTSA Cognitive Aging Lab study about the prospective memory which is nothing but the action taken to remember the task to be completed.

The research is focused on event-based prospective memory. The main goal is to find the difference about the working of prospective memory between both the groups. The test conducted involve giving response to some specific words while performing the ongoing computerized tasks.The test results show that the 60 and above old adults miss much of the specific words than the younger ones.

Smith is eager to find out some techniques to be applied in the real life to improve older adults prospective memory.A small compensation is provided for the participating aduts.
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