NCCA Webinar Series

Gene D. Cohen Research Award in Creativity and Aging
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET

Join us to learn about the research from last year’s Award winners, Drs. Tony and Helga Noice.  Dr. Linda Noelker, Senior Vice President, Director, Katz Policy Institute, Benjamin Rose Institute will also present on her meta-anaylsis covering research in creativity and aging

For over a dozen years, the Noices have been researching the use of theater arts as a means of enhancing healthy cognitive aging. This husband and wife team is ideally equipped to investigate art and science connections; he is an actor, director, and professor of theater, and she is a cognitive scientist and professor of psychology. Their groundbreaking aging intervention employs multi-modal (mental, physical, emotional, social) theater acting instruction.

For two decades, they have been conducting experimental studies of how actors learn and retain information. In controlled field studies, they have been teaching theater classes – to older adults – designed to enhance cognitive function and thereby delay cognitive aging.

The Noices have produced 30 peer-reviewed publications and given more than 40 conference presentations on the connections between the arts and human cognition. In addition, their work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, The Schweizer Nationalfond in Switzerland, and three successive awards from the National Institute on Aging.

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