Past Research

National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders
“Sources of rCBF Effects in Syntactic Comprehension”
(Principal Investigator:: D. Caplan, , Co-PI’s: N. Alpert G. Waters)

2001-06

National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders
“An Investigation of the Trace Deletion Hypothesis”.
(Principal Investigator: D. Caplan, Co-PI’s: G. Waters, N. Alpert)

2000-04

National Institute of Aging
"Sentence Processing in Aging and DAT".
(Principal Investigator: G. Waters, Co-PI’s: D. Caplan, N. Alpert)

1997-02

National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders
“Localization of Disorders of Syntax-Based Comprehension”.
(Principal Investigator: D. Caplan, Co-PI’s: G. Waters, N. Alpert)

1997-02

Medical Research Council of Canada
"Working Memory Capacity and Language Comprehension in Parkinson's Disease".
(Principal Investigator: G. Waters)

1997-00

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
"The nature of the representations used in auditory-verbal short-term memory".
(Principal Investigator: G. Waters)

1996-00

Le Fonds de Recherche en Sante du Quebec (FRSQ)
"Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease-- Multidisciplinary investigation of mild memory impairment in the elderly".
(Co-investigator with H. Chertkow and D. Lorrain).

1997-99

Le Fonds FCAR
"Selective impairments of the ability to abstract form and meaning."
(Principal Investigator with Dr.'s S. Baum & H. Chertkow)

1996-99

Medical Research Council of Canada
"Working Memory and Language Comprehension".
(Principal Investigator: G. Waters)

1994-97

Alzheimer's Association of America
"Cognitive and Positron Emission Tomography Studies in Alzheimer's Disease"
(Co-investigator with H. Chertkow)

1994-97

Le Fonds de Recherche en Sante du Quebec (FRSQ)
"Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease-- Multidisciplinary investigation of mild memory impairment in the elderly".
(Co-investigator with H. Chertkow and D. Lorrain).

1995-97

National Institutes of Aging
" Processing resources and sentence comprehension in patients with DAT"
(with Dr.'s D. Caplan and J. Sherman)

1992-96

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
"The nature of representations used in language processing."
(Principal Investigator: G. Waters)

1993-96

Le Fonds FCAR
"Selective impairments of the ability to abstract form and meaning."
(Principal Investigator with Dr.'s S. Baum, H. Chertkow, D. Bub)

1993-96

Le Fonds de Recherche en Sante du Quebec (FRSQ)
"Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease".
(Co-investigator with H. Chertkow and D. Lorrain).

1993-1995

Medical Research Council of Canada
"Disorders of syntactic comprehension"
(Principal Investigator G. Waters; Co-investigator Dr. D. Caplan)

1991-94

Hoffmann-LaRoche Inc.
"Cognitive studies of Lazabemide in Alzheimer's Disease."
(Co-investigator with H. Chertkow)

1993-04

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
"An investigation of the processes used in single word reading and spelling: Insights from the congenitally deaf. "
(Principal Investigator: G. Waters)

1990-93

Alzheimer's Association of America
Investigator-Initiated Research Grant on "Processing resources in sentence comprehension in aging and dementia of the Alzheimer's type."
(Principal Investigator: G. Waters)

1990-93

Le Fonds FCAR
"The role of auditory verbal short-term memory in language comprehension. "
(Principal Investigator with Dr.'s S. Baum, T. Gallagher, K. Watkin)

1989-92

Medical Research Council of Canada
"Syntactic comprehension after brain damage and syntactic comprehension in aphasia."
(Principal Investigator: G. Waters)

1988-91

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
"Processes involved in word recognition and sentence comprehension."
(Principal Investigator: G. Waters)

1988-90

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
"The Acquisition of Spelling Skills in Children".
(Principal Investigator: G. Waters)

1985-88

National Health & Welfare Research & Development Program
"Reading in Hearing-impaired Children: Word Recognition Skills of Children Educated by Auditory-Oral Methods."
(with Dr. D. Doehring)

1985-88

Fonds de la Recherche en Sante du Quebec
" An Investigation of the Reading Skills of the Congenitally Deaf."
(Principal Investigator: G. Waters)

1985-88

Le Fonds FCAR
"Good, poor and disabled readers' acquisition of word recognition skills."
(with Dr's. M. Seidenberg and M. Bruck)

1985-87

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
"Use of orthographic and phonological codes in reading acquisition."
(with Dr. D. Doehring)

1982-85