Dr. Juan Li (Professor), Dr. Yanan Niu (Assistant Professor) and Ms. Ting Zhou (Ph.D student) from Center on Psychological Aging of the Key laboratory of Mental Health, attended the 17th Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society held in April 17th -20th in Montreal, Canada. Cognitive Neuroscience Society was established in 1994, which has currently held over 2000 members all over the world. The Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society focuses on the human brain mechanism research and covers all branches of current cognitive neuroscience research areas. Dr.Li and her team members presented their study titled as ‘The Age Effects on the Neutral Correlates of Episodic Retrieval Mode: An ERP Study’, and discussed relevant research issues on episodic memory aging with reputable researchers such as, Professor Michael D. Rugg and Professor David Friedman. They also participated the satellite symposium about ‘Prevention of Neurodegenerative Disease: Recent Findings and Future Directions’, which was especially arranged given the increasingly global population aging which has led to widely concern about cognitive function decline and neurodegenerative diseases.

Later, Dr. Juan Li and her team members went to Toronto to visit Dr. Lixia Yang’s Laboratory of Cognitive aging in Ryerson University during April 21st -27th . They discussed the experiment designs and materials etc on ‘Aging, Culture and Memory Binding: A Cross-Cultural Comparison between China and Canada’, which is a collaborative project jointly funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Meanwhile, They also visited the Cognitive & Aging laboratory led by Professor Lynn Hasher in University Toronto, and discussed on several issues such as the early detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment.