Florian Schmiedek

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Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Country: Germany

Publications

  1. ncbi Toward an alternative representation for disentangling age-associated differences in general and specific cognitive abilities
    Florian Schmiedek
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Psychol Aging 19:40-56. 2004
  2. ncbi Individual differences in components of reaction time distributions and their relations to working memory and intelligence
    Florian Schmiedek
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    J Exp Psychol Gen 136:414-29. 2007
  3. ncbi Dual-tasking postural control: aging and the effects of cognitive demand in conjunction with focus of attention
    Oliver Huxhold
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Brain Res Bull 69:294-305. 2006
  4. ncbi Working memory plasticity in old age: practice gain, transfer, and maintenance
    Shu Chen Li
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Psychol Aging 23:731-42. 2008
  5. ncbi Interference and facilitation in spatial working memory: age-associated differences in lure effects in the n-back paradigm
    Florian Schmiedek
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Psychol Aging 24:203-10. 2009
  6. ncbi On the relation of mean reaction time and intraindividual reaction time variability
    Florian Schmiedek
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Psychol Aging 24:841-57. 2009
  7. ncbi Memory updating practice across 100 days in the COGITO study
    Yee Lee Shing
    Center for Life Span Psychology, Max Planck Institutefor Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Psychol Aging 27:451-61. 2012
  8. ncbi Normal aging dampens the link between intrusive thoughts and negative affect in reaction to daily stressors
    Annette Brose
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Psychol Aging 26:488-502. 2011
  9. ncbi Experience-dependent plasticity of white-matter microstructure extends into old age
    Martin Lövdén
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Neuropsychologia 48:3878-83. 2010
  10. ncbi Complex span versus updating tasks of working memory: the gap is not that deep
    Florian Schmiedek
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 35:1089-96. 2009

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Publications22

  1. ncbi Toward an alternative representation for disentangling age-associated differences in general and specific cognitive abilities
    Florian Schmiedek
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Psychol Aging 19:40-56. 2004
    ..Using the nested factor model allowed the authors to detect that specific group factors explained 25% of the age-associated variance in addition to the general factor...
  2. ncbi Individual differences in components of reaction time distributions and their relations to working memory and intelligence
    Florian Schmiedek
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    J Exp Psychol Gen 136:414-29. 2007
    ..Theories of controlled attention and binding are discussed as potential theoretical explanations...
  3. ncbi Dual-tasking postural control: aging and the effects of cognitive demand in conjunction with focus of attention
    Oliver Huxhold
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Brain Res Bull 69:294-305. 2006
    ..We outline mechanisms linking postural control to cognitive demand and suggest routes for future investigation...
  4. ncbi Working memory plasticity in old age: practice gain, transfer, and maintenance
    Shu Chen Li
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Psychol Aging 23:731-42. 2008
    ....
  5. ncbi Interference and facilitation in spatial working memory: age-associated differences in lure effects in the n-back paradigm
    Florian Schmiedek
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Psychol Aging 24:203-10. 2009
    ..At the same time, however, older adults showed facilitation for targets. Taken together, these findings suggest that the contribution of familiarity signals to WM performance increases during normal aging...
  6. ncbi On the relation of mean reaction time and intraindividual reaction time variability
    Florian Schmiedek
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Psychol Aging 24:841-57. 2009
    ..Finally, we note that differences in reliability between estimates for means and variances need to be considered when comparing their unique contributions to developmental outcomes...
  7. ncbi Memory updating practice across 100 days in the COGITO study
    Yee Lee Shing
    Center for Life Span Psychology, Max Planck Institutefor Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Psychol Aging 27:451-61. 2012
    ..These results have implications for designing and evaluating age-comparative working memory training programs...
  8. ncbi Normal aging dampens the link between intrusive thoughts and negative affect in reaction to daily stressors
    Annette Brose
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Psychol Aging 26:488-502. 2011
    ..We tentatively conclude that normal aging dampens the stress-induced link between intrusive thoughts and affect. This dampening may contribute to preserved affective well-being and reduced affective reactivity to daily stress in old age...
  9. ncbi Experience-dependent plasticity of white-matter microstructure extends into old age
    Martin Lövdén
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Neuropsychologia 48:3878-83. 2010
    ....
  10. ncbi Complex span versus updating tasks of working memory: the gap is not that deep
    Florian Schmiedek
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 35:1089-96. 2009
    ..Processes involved in building, maintaining, and updating arbitrary bindings may constitute the common working memory ability underlying performance on reasoning, complex span, and updating tasks...
  11. ncbi Daily variability in working memory is coupled with negative affect: the role of attention and motivation
    Annette Brose
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Emotion 12:605-17. 2012
    ..These findings are in line with proposed mechanisms linking negative affect and cognitive performance...
  12. ncbi Age differences in processing fluctuations in postural control across trials and across days
    Oliver Huxhold
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Psychol Aging 26:731-7. 2011
    ..We concluded that age differences in intraindividual fluctuations at the longer timescales are in part related to age differences in low-level system robustness, suggesting a cascade of effects across multiple timescales...
  13. ncbi Emotions and physical health in the second half of life: interindividual differences in age-related trajectories and dynamic associations according to socioeconomic status
    Ina Schöllgen
    German Centre of Gerontology, Berlin, Germany
    Psychol Aging 27:338-52. 2012
    ..These results indicate that SES not only affects changes in physical health and emotional functioning but also their interrelationships...
  14. ncbi Is seeking bad mood cognitively demanding? Contra-hedonic orientation and working-memory capacity in everyday life
    Michaela Riediger
    Max Planck Research Group Affect Across the Lifespan, MPI for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Emotion 11:656-65. 2011
    ..These findings are consistent with the view that contra-hedonic orientation is accompanied by momentarily more diminished cognitive resources than is prohedonic orientation...
  15. ncbi Age is not necessarily aging: another step towards understanding the "clocks" that time aging
    Shu Chen Li
    Center for Life Span Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, D 14195 Berlin, Germany
    Gerontology 48:5-12; discussion 22-9. 2002
    ..Concerted gerontological research endeavors utilizing recent progresses made in statistical analyses of dynamic processes and in cognitive and computational neurosciences that may lead to fruitful breakthroughs...
  16. ncbi Dyadic drumming across the lifespan reveals a zone of proximal development in children
    Anna Kleinspehn-Ammerlahn
    Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Dev Psychol 47:632-44. 2011
    ..The authors conclude that IAS improves from middle childhood to adulthood and that adult interaction partners may facilitate its development...
  17. ncbi With a little help from my spouse: does spousal collaboration compensate for the effects of cognitive aging?
    Antje Rauers
    Max Planck Research Group Affect Across the Lifespan, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Gerontology 57:161-6. 2011
    ..One factor that can facilitate collaboration, and decrease its resource requirements, is familiarity between interaction partners. Such facilitation should be particularly important when cognitive-mechanic resources are low...
  18. ncbi Cognitive plasticity in adulthood and old age: gauging the generality of cognitive intervention effects
    Hannes Noack
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Restor Neurol Neurosci 27:435-53. 2009
    ..Hence, we propose a taxonomy of transfer distance based on the structure of human intellectual abilities...
  19. ncbi Aging and attenuated processing robustness. Evidence from cognitive and sensorimotor functioning
    Shu Chen Li
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Gerontology 50:28-34. 2004
    ..Within-person, across-time variations in processes and performance are intrinsic to all aspects of human functioning...
  20. ncbi Health is health is health? Age differences in intraindividual variability and in within-person versus between-person factor structures of self-reported health complaints
    Julia K Wolff
    Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Psychol Aging 27:881-91. 2012
    ....
  21. ncbi Does variability in cognitive performance correlate with frontal brain volume?
    Martin Lövdén
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Neuroimage 64:209-15. 2013
    ....
  22. ncbi Seeking pleasure and seeking pain: differences in prohedonic and contra-hedonic motivation from adolescence to old age
    Michaela Riediger
    Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    Psychol Sci 20:1529-35. 2009
    ..Implications for understanding affective development are discussed...