Ulman Lindenberger
Biographic Data
| ID | 1662353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ulman Lindenberger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ulman |
| FAMILY NAME | Lindenberger |
| SIGNATURE | LINDENBERGER U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Human Development |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8428-6453 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 160 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Tracking Divergence of Objective and Subjective Health Across Age and Historical Time
Influential work in the gerontological literature in the 1990s has demonstrated that the discrepancy between objective and subjective evaluations of health increases with age. It is an open question though whether the direction and size of the age gradient in the discrepancies has changed over historical time. In this study, we examine cohort differences in age-related divergences in health evaluations using two markers of objective health (illne…
Subjective aging and cognitive aging across 15 years in middle-aged and older adults: Disentangling between-person and within-person associations
Subjective aging predicts various developmental outcomes, including cognitive functioning. However, associations could be bidirectional. We focused on central dimensions of subjective aging (subjective age; self-perceptions of aging related to social losses, physical losses, and ongoing development) and investigated reciprocal longitudinal associations with perceptual-motor speed, both at the between-person level (i.e., Do individuals with more p…
Deficits in memory metacognitive efficiency in late adulthood are related to distinct brain profile
The tendency of falsely remembering events that did not happen in the past increases with age.This is particularly evident in cases in which features presented at study are re-presented at test in a recombined constellation (termed rearranged pairs).Interestingly, older adults also express high confidence in such false memories, a tendency that may indicate reduced metacognitive efficiency.Within an existing cohort study, we aimed at investigatin…
Age differences in generalization, memory specificity, and their overnight fate in childhood
Memory enables generalization to new situations, and memory specificity that preserves individual episodes. This study investigated generalization, memory specificity, and their overnight fate in 141 4- to 8-year-olds (computerized memory game; 71 females, tested 2020–2021 in Germany). The results replicated age effects in generalization and memory specificity, and a contingency of generalization on object conceptual properties and interobject se…
Too easy, too hard, or just right: Lifespan age differences and gender effects on task difficulty choices
In everyday life, individuals often need to make choices about the difficulty level of tasks they wish to perform. Here, we investigate age- and gender-related differences in the monitoring of discrepancies between the difficulty of a given task and one’s own performance level, and in the likelihood to select task difficulties that match one’s performance level. Male and female children, teenagers, younger adults, and older adults (total N = 160)…
People's interest in brain health testing: Findings from an international, online cross-sectional survey
Brain health entails mental wellbeing and cognitive health in the absence of brain disorders. The past decade has seen an explosion of tests, cognitive and biological, to predict various brain conditions, such as Alzheimer's Disease. In line with these current developments, we investigated people's willingness and reasons to—or not to—take a hypothetical brain health test to learn about risk of developing a brain disease, in a cross-sectional mul…
Assessing Music Expertise
We introduce the Berlin Gehoerbildung Scale (BGS), a multidimensional assessment of music expertise in amateur musicians and music professionals. The BGS is informed by music theory and uses a variety of testing methods in the ear-training tradition, with items covering four different dimensions of music expertise: (1) intervals and scales, (2) dictation, (3) chords and cadences, and (4) complex listening. We validated the test in a sample of ama…
Urban green is more than the absence of city: Structural and functional neural basis of urbanicity and green space in the neighbourhood of older adults
The relationship between urbanization, the brain, and human mental health is subject to intensive debate in the current scientific literature. Particularly, since mood and anxiety disorders as well as schizophrenia are known to be more frequent in urban compared to rural regions. Here, we investigated the association between cerebral signatures, mental health and land use indicators (Urban Fabric and Urban Green) within a 1 km radius around the h…
Age Trajectories of Perceptual Speed and Loneliness: Separating Between-Person and Within-Person Associations
We conclude that loneliness may serve as a precursor for basic cognitive functioning in old age and suggest routes for further inquiry
Sociohistorical Change in Urban Older Adults’ Perceived Speed of Time and Time Pressure
These findings document sociohistorical trends toward greater perceived time pressure and reduced heterogeneity in perceived speed of time among later-born urban adults. Conceptualizations of social acceleration should thus consider the whole adult life span
Education and Cognitive Functioning Across the Life Span
Cognitive abilities are important predictors of educational and occupational performance, socioeconomic attainment, health, and longevity. Declines in cognitive abilities are linked to impairments in older adults’ everyday functions, but people differ from one another in their rates of cognitive decline over the course of adulthood and old age. Hence, identifying factors that protect against compromised late-life cognition is of great societal in…
Coupled cognitive changes in adulthood: A meta-analysis
With advancing age, healthy adults typically exhibit decreases in performance across many different cognitive abilities such as memory, processing speed, spatial ability, and abstract reasoning. However, there are marked individual differences in rates of cognitive decline, with some adults declining steeply and others maintaining high levels of functioning. To move toward a comprehensive understanding of cognitive aging, it is critical to know w…
Rostral locus coeruleus integrity is associated with better memory performance in older adults
Developmental cognitive neuroscience using latent change score models: A tutorial and applications
Assessing and analysing individual differences in change over time is of central scientific importance to developmental neuroscience. However, the literature is based largely on cross-sectional comparisons, which reflect a variety of influences and cannot directly represent change. We advocate using latent change score (LCS) models in longitudinal samples as a statistical framework to tease apart the complex processes underlying lifespan developm…
The Role of Time in the Quest for Understanding Psychological Mechanisms
The lead-lag structure of multivariate time-ordered observations and the possibility to disentangle between-person (BP) from within-person (WP) sources of variance are major assets of longitudinal (panel) data. Hence, psychologists are making increasing use of such data, often with the intent to delineate the dynamic properties of psychological mechanisms, understood as a sequence of causal effects that govern psychological functioning. However, …
Age Differences in Day-To-Day Speed-Accuracy Tradeoffs: Results from the Cogito Study
We examined adult age differences in day-to-day adjustments in speed-accuracy tradeoffs (SAT) on a figural comparison task. Data came from the COGITO study, with over 100 younger and 100 older adults, assessed for over 100 days. Participants were given explicit feedback about their completion time and accuracy each day after task completion. We applied a multivariate vector auto-regressive model of order 1 to the daily mean reaction time (RT) and…
Psychological and neural correlates of embitterment in old age
The precuneus and uncinate fasciculus are brain regions that have been related to episodic memory retrieval, matching well to the symptoms of intrusive thoughts and an overwhelming preoccupation with the event that caused the PTED. Further longitudinal research is needed to unravel whether these structural correlates represent preconditions or rather the consequence of embitterment. (PsycINFO Database Record
Baltes, Paul B (1939–2006)
Toward a Unified Framework for the Study of Between-Person and Within-Person Structures: Building a Bridge Between Two Research Paradigms
The vast majority of empirical research in the behavioral sciences is based on the analysis of between-person variation. In contrast, much of applied psychology is concerned with the analysis of variation within individuals. Furthermore, the mechanisms specified by psychological theories generally operate within, rather than across, individuals. This disconnect between research practice, applied demands, and psychological theories constitutes a m…
Is Available Support Always Helpful for Older Adults? Exploring the Buffering Effects of State and Trait Social Support
We propose that 2 different mechanisms are relevant for younger and OA and at state and trait level. Although emotional support may be a resource for OA, informational support may enhance their daily complaints. YA seem to benefit from being socially integrated
Younger adults show long-term effects of cognitive training on broad cognitive abilities over 2 years
In the COGITO study (Schmiedek, Lövdén, & Lindenberger, 2010), 101 younger adults practiced 12 tests of perceptual speed, working memory, and episodic memory for over 100 daily 1-hr sessions. The intervention resulted in positive transfer to broad cognitive abilities, including reasoning and episodic memory. Here, we examine whether these ability-based transfer effects are maintained over time. Two years after the end of the training, 80 particip…
Here we go again: Anticipatory and reactive mood responses to recurring unpleasant situations throughout adulthood
Much is known about reactive mood changes due to unpleasant tasks or situations. This research provides evidence that recurring events may also elicit anticipatory mood changes, and that both reactive and anticipatory mood responses need to be considered when studying affective experiences and emotion regulation. Based on prevalent theories on emotion regulation, we propose that anticipatory and reactive mood responses to recurring unpleasant eve…
Affective states contribute to trait reports of affective well-being
Asking people to provide global judgments, or trait reports, of their affective experience is a standard method for assessing trait affective well-being, with countless applications in the social sciences. Trait reports reflect numerous influences that generally go unnoticed. Although state affect is a highly plausible candidate for such influences, this source of unwanted variance does not receive much attention and is usually not controlled for…
Development of attentional control of verbal auditory perception from middle to late childhood: Comparisons to healthy aging
Multitalker situations confront listeners with a plethora of competing auditory inputs, and hence require selective attention to relevant information, especially when the perceptual saliency of distracting inputs is high. This study augmented the classical forced-attention dichotic listening paradigm by adding an interaural intensity manipulation to investigate developmental differences in the interplay between perceptual saliency and attentional…
Differences in binding and monitoring mechanisms contribute to lifespan age differences in false memory
Based on a 2-component framework of episodic memory development across the lifespan (Shing & Lindenberger, 2011), we examined the contribution of memory-related binding and monitoring processes to false memory susceptibility in childhood and old age. We administered a repeated continuous recognition task to children (N = 20, 10-12 years), younger adults (N = 20, 20-27 years), and older adults (N = 21, 68-76 years). Participants saw the same set o…
Life satisfaction shows terminal decline in old age: Longitudinal evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (Soep)
Longitudinal data spanning 22 years, obtained from deceased participants of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP; N = 1,637; 70- to 100-year-olds), were used to examine if and how life satisfaction exhibits terminal decline at the end of life. Changes in life satisfaction were more strongly associated with distance to death than with distance from birth (chronological age). Multiphase growth models were used to identify a transition point …
A theoretical framework for the study of adult cognitive plasticity
Does plasticity contribute to adult cognitive development, and if so, in what ways?The vague and overused concept of plasticity makes these controversial questions difficult to answer.In this article, we refine the notion of adult cognitive plasticity and sharpen its conceptual distinctiveness.According to our framework, adult cognitive plasticity is driven by a prolonged mismatch between functional organismic supplies and environmental demands a…
Age and time-to-death trajectories of change in indicators of cognitive, sensory, physical, health, social, and self-related functions
Mortality-related processes are known to modulate late-life change in cognitive abilities, but it is an open question whether and how precipitous declines with impending death generalize to other domains of functioning. We investigated this notion by using 13-year longitudinal data from now-deceased participants in the Berlin Aging Study (N = 439; 70-103 years at first occasion; M = 87 years). Using time metrics of chronological age and time-to-d…
Well-being affects changes in perceptual speed in advanced old age: Longitudinal evidence for a dynamic link
This study examined competing hypotheses about dynamic cross-domain associations between perceptual speed and well-being in advanced old age. We applied the bivariate dual change score model (J. J. McArdle & F. Hamagami, 2001) to 13-year incomplete longitudinal data from the Berlin Aging Study (P. B. Baltes & K. U. Mayer, 1999; N=516, 70-103 years at T1, M=85 years). Reports of well-being were found to influence subsequent decline in perceptual s…
Affective and cardiovascular responding to unpleasant events from adolescence to old age: Complexity of events matters
Two studies investigated the overpowering hypothesis as a possible explanation for the currently inconclusive empirical picture on age differences in affective responding to unpleasant events. The overpowering hypothesis predicts that age differences in affective responding are particularly evident in highly resource-demanding situations that overtax older adults' capacities. In Study 1, we used a mobile phone-based experience-sampling technology…
Coupled cognitive changes in adulthood: A meta-analysis
With advancing age, healthy adults typically exhibit decreases in performance across many different cognitive abilities such as memory, processing speed, spatial ability, and abstract reasoning. However, there are marked individual differences in rates of cognitive decline, with some adults declining steeply and others maintaining high levels of functioning. To move toward a comprehensive understanding of cognitive aging, it is critical to know w…
Longitudinal Selectivity in Aging Populations: Separating Mortality-Associated Versus Experimental Components in the Berlin Aging Study (Base)
The authors examined 3.7-year selectivity in the Berlin Aging Study by comparing the T1 parent sample (N = 516) with the T3 sample (N = 206). Selectivity was partitioned into a mortality-associated component, reflecting the degree to which individuals still alive at T3 (T3 survivors, N = 313) differ from the T1 parent sample (N = 516) from which they originated, and an experimental component, reflecting the degree to which the T3 sample (N = 206)…
Memory plasticity across the life span: Uncovering children's latent potential
Memory plasticity, or the ability to improve one's memory performance through instruction and training, is known to decline during adulthood.However, direct comparisons among middle childhood, adulthood, and old age are lacking.The authors examined memory plasticity in an age-comparative multisession training study.One hundred and eight participants ages 9 -10, 11-12, 20 -25, and 65-78 years learned and practiced an imagery-based mnemonic techniq…
Causality, agency, and control beliefs in East versus West Berlin children: A natural experiment on the role of context
Beliefs about factors that affect school performance (means-ends or causality beliefs) and about self-efficacy and control (agency and control beliefs) were assessed in 313 East Berlin children (grades 2-6) before unification and 516 West Berlin children shortly after unification. Multiple-group analyses of mean and covariance structures yielded 2 major differences: (a) East Berlin children showed lower agency and control beliefs than West Berlin…
Functions, operations, and decalage in the development of transitivity
The hypothesis that some attempts to reduce the performance demands of concrete operational tasks may have allowed children to solve those tasks with preoperational functions was tested by administering two previously used versions of the transitivity task for length and weight to 120 children 6 to 9 years of age.In the standard Piagetian version of the task, comparison objects were presented only two at a time, with no correlation between length…
Walking Variability and Working-Memory Load in Aging: A Dual-Process Account Relating Cognitive Control to Motor Control Performance
Effects of cognitive activities on walking variability are poorly understood. We parametrically manipulated working-memory load by using an n-back task in 32 younger adults and 32 older adults walking on a treadmill at self-selected speed. We found no dual-task costs for cognitive performance. Stride-to-stride variability was lower when participants performed an easy working-memory task than when they walked without cognitive tasks. Increasing wo…
Rostral locus coeruleus integrity is associated with better memory performance in older adults
Younger adults show long-term effects of cognitive training on broad cognitive abilities over 2 years
In the COGITO study (Schmiedek, Lövdén, & Lindenberger, 2010), 101 younger adults practiced 12 tests of perceptual speed, working memory, and episodic memory for over 100 daily 1-hr sessions. The intervention resulted in positive transfer to broad cognitive abilities, including reasoning and episodic memory. Here, we examine whether these ability-based transfer effects are maintained over time. Two years after the end of the training, 80 particip…
Physical and emotional well-being and the balance of needed and received emotional support: Age differences in a daily diary study
Dyadic drumming across the lifespan reveals a zone of proximal development in children
Many social interactions require the synchronization--be it automatically or intentionally--of one's own behavior with that of others. Using a dyadic drumming paradigm, the authors delineate lifespan differences in interpersonal action synchronization (IAS). Younger children, older children, younger adults, and older adults in same- and mixed-age dyads were instructed to drum in synchrony with their interaction partner at a constant, self-chosen …
Age differences between children and young adults in the dynamics of dual-task prioritization: Body (balance) versus mind (memory)
Task prioritization can lead to trade-off patterns in dual-task situations. The authors compared dual-task performances in 9- and 11-year-old children and young adults performing a cognitive task and a motor task concurrently. The motor task required balancing on an ankle-disc board. Two cognitive tasks measured working memory and episodic memory at difficulty levels individually adjusted during the course of extensive training. Adults showed per…
Functions, operations, and decalage in the development of transitivity
The hypothesis that some attempts to reduce the performance demands of concrete operational tasks may have allowed children to solve those tasks with preoperational functions was tested by administering two previously used versions of the transitivity task for length and weight to 120 children 6 to 9 years of age.In the standard Piagetian version of the task, comparison objects were presented only two at a time, with no correlation between length…
Causality, agency, and control beliefs in East versus West Berlin children: A natural experiment on the role of context
Beliefs about factors that affect school performance (means-ends or causality beliefs) and about self-efficacy and control (agency and control beliefs) were assessed in 313 East Berlin children (grades 2-6) before unification and 516 West Berlin children shortly after unification. Multiple-group analyses of mean and covariance structures yielded 2 major differences: (a) East Berlin children showed lower agency and control beliefs than West Berlin…
Emergence of a powerful connection between sensory and cognitive functions across the adult life span: A new window to the study of cognitive aging?
On selecting indicators for multivariate measurement and modeling with latent variables: When "good" indicators are bad and "bad" indicators are good.
Lifespan Psychology: Theory and Application to Intellectual Functioning
The focus of this review is on theory and research of lifespan (lifespan developmental) psychology. The theoretical analysis integrates evolutionary and ontogenetic perspectives on cultural and human development across several levels of analysis. Specific predictions are advanced dealing with the general architecture of lifespan ontogeny, including its directionality and age-differential allocation of developmental resources into the three major …
Invariants et variabilités dans les sciences cognitives
« Comme toutes les sciences, les sciences cognitives sont confrontées à la variabilité des phénomènes qu'elles étudient, et cherchent à dégager de cette variabilité un ensemble de régularités, d'invariants, sur lesquels ancrer les connaissances. Cette quête d'invariance implique des choix quant aux formes de variabilité à prendre en considération. Certaines, jugées pertinentes pour l'objet d'étude, sont utilisées ou manipulées pour en extraire de…
Longitudinal Selectivity in Aging Populations: Separating Mortality-Associated Versus Experimental Components in the Berlin Aging Study (Base)
The authors examined 3.7-year selectivity in the Berlin Aging Study by comparing the T1 parent sample (N = 516) with the T3 sample (N = 206). Selectivity was partitioned into a mortality-associated component, reflecting the degree to which individuals still alive at T3 (T3 survivors, N = 313) differ from the T1 parent sample (N = 516) from which they originated, and an experimental component, reflecting the degree to which the T3 sample (N = 206)…
Regional Brain Changes in Aging Healthy Adults: General Trends, Individual Differences and Modifiers
Brain aging research relies mostly on cross-sectional studies, which infer true changes from age differences. We present longitudinal measures of five-year change in the regional brain volumes in healthy adults. Average and individual differences in volume changes and the effects of age, sex and hypertension were assessed with latent difference score modeling. The caudate, the cerebellum, the hippocampus and the association cortices shrunk substa…
Well-being affects changes in perceptual speed in advanced old age: Longitudinal evidence for a dynamic link
This study examined competing hypotheses about dynamic cross-domain associations between perceptual speed and well-being in advanced old age. We applied the bivariate dual change score model (J. J. McArdle & F. Hamagami, 2001) to 13-year incomplete longitudinal data from the Berlin Aging Study (P. B. Baltes & K. U. Mayer, 1999; N=516, 70-103 years at T1, M=85 years). Reports of well-being were found to influence subsequent decline in perceptual s…
Memory plasticity across the life span: Uncovering children's latent potential
Memory plasticity, or the ability to improve one's memory performance through instruction and training, is known to decline during adulthood.However, direct comparisons among middle childhood, adulthood, and old age are lacking.The authors examined memory plasticity in an age-comparative multisession training study.One hundred and eight participants ages 9 -10, 11-12, 20 -25, and 65-78 years learned and practiced an imagery-based mnemonic techniq…
Enrichment Effects on Adult Cognitive Development: Can the Functional Capacity of Older Adults Be Preserved and Enhanced?
In this monograph, we ask whether various kinds of intellectual, physical, and social activities produce cognitive enrichment effects—that is, whether they improve cognitive performance at different points of the adult life span, with a particular emphasis on old age. We begin with a theoretical framework that emphasizes the potential of behavior to influence levels of cognitive functioning. According to this framework, the undeniable presence of…
Walking Variability and Working-Memory Load in Aging: A Dual-Process Account Relating Cognitive Control to Motor Control Performance
Effects of cognitive activities on walking variability are poorly understood. We parametrically manipulated working-memory load by using an n-back task in 32 younger adults and 32 older adults walking on a treadmill at self-selected speed. We found no dual-task costs for cognitive performance. Stride-to-stride variability was lower when participants performed an easy working-memory task than when they walked without cognitive tasks. Increasing wo…
Age differences between children and young adults in the dynamics of dual-task prioritization: Body (balance) versus mind (memory)
Task prioritization can lead to trade-off patterns in dual-task situations. The authors compared dual-task performances in 9- and 11-year-old children and young adults performing a cognitive task and a motor task concurrently. The motor task required balancing on an ankle-disc board. Two cognitive tasks measured working memory and episodic memory at difficulty levels individually adjusted during the course of extensive training. Adults showed per…
Life satisfaction shows terminal decline in old age: Longitudinal evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (Soep)
Longitudinal data spanning 22 years, obtained from deceased participants of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP; N = 1,637; 70- to 100-year-olds), were used to examine if and how life satisfaction exhibits terminal decline at the end of life. Changes in life satisfaction were more strongly associated with distance to death than with distance from birth (chronological age). Multiphase growth models were used to identify a transition point …
The Center of Lifespan Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development: Conceptual Agenda and Illustration of Research Activities
摘要: Paul B. Baltes于1981年在马普人类发展研究所成立的毕生发展心理研究中心已经使毕生发展心理学成为了发展心理学中的一个重要的概念分支。2004年以来,中心已经将研究项目扩展到了发展行为神经科学。中心主要在三个主题上开展研究工作: (1) 研究作为成熟、学习和衰老的交互作用的结果, 毕生的不同发展阶段中人类行为变化的规律: (2) 发展能够整合来自于自身机能、时间序列、以及行为和神经层面分析等领域实证证据的理论和方法体系。(3) 通过探索不同年龄可塑性上的差异寻找发展的机制。中心继续重点关注成人晚期和老年期, 这为理论和实践上的创新提供了独特的机遇。同时, 中心加强了对包括婴儿期和儿童早期在内的个体发展早期阶段的研究。本文报告了来自四项从行为和神经层面分析感觉和认知发展的研究的最新发现
Faces—A database of facial expressions in young, middle-aged, and older women and men: Development and validation
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Testing-the-Limits and Experimental Simulation: Two Methods to Explicate the Role of Learning in Development
Developmental psychology needs a coalition of different research methods and strategies to achieve a more complete picture of the range of development and its causes. In this article, two such strategies are described – testing-the-limits and the experimental simulation of development. The aim of testing-the-limits research is to identify and decompose age-graded differences in upper limits of plasticity (the norm of reaction or the zone of poten…
Maternal Affect Attunement: Refinement and Internal Validation of a Coding Scheme
The concept of maternal affect attunement has evoked considerable theoretical interest, but attempts at empirical validation have been scarce. The aim of this study was to refine the coding scheme for assessment of maternal affect attunement and to e
Adult Age Differences and the Role of Cognitive Resources in Perceptual–Motor Skill Acquisition: Application of a Multilevel Negative Exponential Model
The effects of advanced age and cognitive resources on the course of skill acquisition are unclear, and discrepancies among studies may reflect limitations of data analytic approaches. We applied a multilevel negative exponential model to skill acquisition data from 80 trials (four 20-trial blocks) of a pursuit rotor task administered to healthy adults (19-80 years old). The analyses conducted at the single-trial level indicated that the negative…
A theoretical framework for the study of adult cognitive plasticity
Does plasticity contribute to adult cognitive development, and if so, in what ways?The vague and overused concept of plasticity makes these controversial questions difficult to answer.In this article, we refine the notion of adult cognitive plasticity and sharpen its conceptual distinctiveness.According to our framework, adult cognitive plasticity is driven by a prolonged mismatch between functional organismic supplies and environmental demands a…
Daily variability in working memory is coupled with negative affect: The role of attention and motivation
Across days, individuals experience varying levels of negative affect, control of attention, and motivation. We investigated whether this intraindividual variability was coupled with daily fluctuations in working memory (WM) performance. In 100 days, 101 younger individuals worked on a spatial N-back task and rated negative affect, control of attention, and motivation. Results showed that individuals differed in how reliably WM performance fluctu…
Is seeking bad mood cognitively demanding? Contra-hedonic orientation and working-memory capacity in everyday life
Hedonism, or wanting to feel good, is central to human motivation. At times, however, people also seek to maintain or enhance negative affect or to dampen positive affect, and this can be instrumental for the later attainment of their goals. Here, we investigate the assumption that such contra-hedonic orientation is cognitively more demanding than prohedonic orientation, above and beyond the effects of momentary affective experience. We provided …
Dyadic drumming across the lifespan reveals a zone of proximal development in children
Many social interactions require the synchronization--be it automatically or intentionally--of one's own behavior with that of others. Using a dyadic drumming paradigm, the authors delineate lifespan differences in interpersonal action synchronization (IAS). Younger children, older children, younger adults, and older adults in same- and mixed-age dyads were instructed to drum in synchrony with their interaction partner at a constant, self-chosen …
Only time will tell: Cross-sectional studies offer no solution to the age-brain-cognition triangle: Comment on Salthouse (2011)
Salthouse (2011) critically reviewed cross-sectional and longitudinal relations among adult age, brain structure, and cognition (ABC) and identified problems in interpretation of the extant literature. His review, however, missed several important points. First, there is enough disparity among the measures of brain structure and cognitive performance to question the uniformity of B and C vertices of the ABC triangle. Second, age differences and a…
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