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Memorizing while walking: increase in dual-task costs from young adulthood to old ageU Lindenberger
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Psychol Aging 15:417-36. 2000..98 standard deviation units for middle-aged and 1.47 standard deviation units for old adults. It is argued that sensory and motor aspects of behavior are increasingly in need of cognitive control with advancing age...- Longitudinal selectivity in aging populations: separating mortality-associated versus experimental components in the Berlin Aging Study (BASE)Ulman Lindenberger
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 57:P474-82. 2002..Partitioning selectivity into mortality-associated and experimental components is a useful tool in the longitudinal study of aging populations... 
Microstructure of frontoparietal connections predicts cortical responsivity and working memory performanceA Z Burzynska
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Cereb Cortex 21:2261-71. 2011..This in turn may affect signal summation at neural dendrites, action potential firing, and the resulting BOLD signal change and responsivity...- The strong connection between sensory and cognitive performance in old age: not due to sensory acuity reductions operating during cognitive assessmentU Lindenberger
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Psychol Aging 16:196-205. 2001.... - Intellectual functioning in old and very old age: cross-sectional results from the Berlin Aging StudyU Lindenberger
Center for Psychology and Human Development, Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education, Berlin, Germany
Psychol Aging 12:410-32. 1997..Results suggest that aging-induced biological factors are a prominent source of individual differences in intelligence in old and very old age... - Walking while memorizing: age-related differences in compensatory behaviorK Z Li
Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Psychol Sci 12:230-7. 2001..The results have broad implications for systemic theories of cognitive and sensorimotor aging, and the costs and benefits of assistive devices and environmental support for older populations... - The role of inhibition in the regulation of sequential actionK Z Li
Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, D 14195, Berlin, Germany
Psychol Sci 11:343-7. 2000..In accord with current models of sequential action, the results indicate lateral and self-inhibition as important mechanisms in regulation of sequential action... - Age-related differences in white matter microstructure: region-specific patterns of diffusivityA Z Burzynska
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, D 14195 Berlin, Germany
Neuroimage 49:2104-12. 2010..This first simultaneous description of age-related differences in FA, mean, axial, and radial diffusivity requires histological and functional validation as well as analyses of intermediate age groups and longitudinal samples... - [Age-associated interactions of sensorimotor and cognitive functions]O Huxhold
Deutsches Zentrum fur Altersfragen, Berlin, Germany
Z Gerontol Geriatr 42:93-8. 2009..This review integrates experimental, correlational, and neurophysiological evidence, with an eye on implications for maintaining an independent and mobile lifestyle in old age... - Age-related changes in task-switching components: the role of task uncertaintyJutta Kray
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Brain Cogn 49:363-81. 2002..Generally, the findings suggest that age-related impairments in task-switching components vary as a function of task uncertainty, such as the presence of environmental prompts to behavior... - Dual-tasking postural control: aging and the effects of cognitive demand in conjunction with focus of attentionOliver 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... - Well-being affects changes in perceptual speed in advanced old age: longitudinal evidence for a dynamic linkDenis Gerstorf
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Dev Psychol 43:705-18. 2007..Our results suggest that well-being is not only a consequence of but also a source for successful aging. The discussion focuses on conceptual implications and methodological considerations... - Within-person trial-to-trial variability precedes and predicts cognitive decline in old and very old age: longitudinal data from the Berlin Aging StudyMartin Lövdén
Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, D 14195 Berlin, Germany
Neuropsychologia 45:2827-38. 2007.... 
Electrophysiological correlates of selective attention: a lifespan comparisonViktor Mueller
School of Psychology, Saarland University, Im Stadtwald 1, 66123 Saarbrucken, Germany
BMC Neurosci 9:18. 2008..To examine lifespan age differences, the derived difference-wave components for attended (MMN and LDN) and deviant (EPN and LPN) stimuli were specifically compared across the four age groups...- Decline in life satisfaction in old age: longitudinal evidence for links to distance-to-deathDenis Gerstorf
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, PA 16802, USA
Psychol Aging 23:154-68. 2008..The authors conclude that late-life changes in subjective well-being are related to mechanisms predicting death and suggest routes for further inquiry... - Life satisfaction shows terminal decline in old age: longitudinal evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)Denis Gerstorf
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Dev Psychol 44:1148-59. 2008..Overall, the evidence suggests that late-life changes in aspects of well-being are driven by mortality-related mechanisms and characterized by terminal decline... - Social participation attenuates decline in perceptual speed in old and very old ageMartin Lövdén
Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Psychol Aging 20:423-34. 2005..Results support the hypothesis that an engaged and active lifestyle in old and very old age may alleviate decline in perceptual speed... - Relations between aging sensory/sensorimotor and cognitive functionsKaren Z H Li
Department of Psychology, Centre for Research in Human Development, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke St West, Montreal, Que, Canada H4B 1R6
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 26:777-83. 2002..a combination of the two. Future research aiming at discerning the relative import of these possibilities would profit from an integration of experimental and correlational research strategies... - Plasticity of memory for new learning in very old age: a story of major loss?Tania Singer
Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Psychol Aging 18:306-17. 2003..Results suggest that aging-induced biological factors are a prominent source of individual differences in cognitive plasticity in very old age... - The fate of cognition in very old age: six-year longitudinal findings in the Berlin Aging Study (BASE)Tania Singer
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Psychol Aging 18:318-31. 2003..They conclude that intellectual development after age 70 varies by distance to death, age, and intellectual ability domain... - Static and dynamic longitudinal structural analyses of cognitive changes in old agePaolo Ghisletta
Center for Interdisciplinary Gerontology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Gerontology 50:12-6. 2004..Among the main data-analytical advances of recent decades are Latent Growth Models (LGM) and Multilevel Models (MLM) for the analysis of longitudinal data... - Age differences in executive functioning across the lifespan: the role of verbalization in task preparationJutta Kray
Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Im Stadtwald, 66123 Saarbrucken, Germany
Acta Psychol (Amst) 115:143-65. 2004..Our findings suggest that inner speech in an important modulator of developmental changes in executive functioning across the lifespan... - Transformations in the couplings among intellectual abilities and constituent cognitive processes across the life spanShu Chen Li
Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Psychol Sci 15:155-63. 2004..Research on developmental changes in functional brain circuitry may profit from explicitly recognizing transformations in the organization of intellectual abilities and their underlying cognitive processes across the life span... - Studying individual aging in an interindividual context: typical paths of age-related, dementia-related, and mortality-related cognitive development in old ageMartin Lövdén
Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, D 14195 Berlin, Germany
Psychol Aging 20:303-16. 2005..Typical progression of dementia followed a developmental cascade from low declarative memory, via low functioning across all observed cognitive measures, to dementia diagnosis, and finally, death... - Age differences between children and young adults in the dynamics of dual-task prioritization: body (balance) versus mind (memory)Sabine Schaefer
Department of Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, Berlin, Germany
Dev Psychol 44:747-57. 2008..The authors argue that children perform closer to their stability boundaries in the balance task and therefore prioritize protection of their balance under dual-task conditions... - Walking variability and working-memory load in aging: a dual-process account relating cognitive control to motor control performanceMartin Lövdén
Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, Berlin, Germany
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 63:P121-8. 2008..Extending the 2006 dual-process account proposed by Huxhold, Li, Schmiedek, and Lindenberger, we conclude that normal aging alters the trade-off between the effects of focus of attention and resource competition on walking variability... - Comparing memory skill maintenance across the life span: preservation in adults, increase in childrenYvonne Brehmer
Saarland University, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Psychol Aging 23:227-38. 2008..F. I. M. Craik, 1983), and (c) children adapt a skill learned 11 months ago to their increasing cognitive capabilities... - Psychological principles of successful aging technologies: a mini-reviewUlman Lindenberger
Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Gerontology 54:59-68. 2008.... - Age-based structural dynamics between perceptual speed and knowledge in the Berlin Aging Study: direct evidence for ability dedifferentiation in old agePaolo Ghisletta
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Dahlem Berlin, Germany
Psychol Aging 18:696-713. 2003..As hypothesized, results indicated that changes in knowledge are dominated by perceptual speed and offered strong support for the notion of "mechanization" of pragmatic abilities in old and very old age... - Quantitative and qualitative sex differences in spatial navigationMartin Lövdén
Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany, and School of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany
Scand J Psychol 48:353-8. 2007..Results indicate that sex differences in spatial navigation performance are modulated by interactions between environmental demands and sex differences in spatial processing... - Neuroanatomical correlates of fluid intelligence in healthy adults and persons with vascular risk factorsNaftali Raz
Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Cereb Cortex 18:718-26. 2008..VR was independently associated with smaller prefrontal volumes and lower fluid intelligence. Thus, prefrontal and medial-temporal systems may play different roles in age-related differences and changes in cognitive performance... - Memory plasticity across the life span: uncovering children's latent potentialYvonne Brehmer
Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Dev Psychol 43:465-78. 2007..However, in line with tenets from life-span psychology (P. B. Baltes, 1987), children profited more from mnemonic practice and reached higher levels of final performance than did older adults... - On the power of multivariate latent growth curve models to detect correlated changeChristopher Hertzog
School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 0170, USA
Psychol Methods 11:244-52. 2006..The present findings allow researchers to make more informed design decisions when planning a longitudinal study and aid in interpreting LGCM results regarding correlated interindividual differences in rates of development... - Regional brain changes in aging healthy adults: general trends, individual differences and modifiersNaftali Raz
Department of Psychology and Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University, 87 East Ferry St, 226 Knapp Building, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Cereb Cortex 15:1676-89. 2005..No sex differences in age trends except for the caudate were observed. We found no evidence of neuroprotective effects of larger brain size or educational attainment... - The correlative triad among aging, dopamine, and cognition: current status and future prospectsLars Backman
Aging Research Center, Division of Geriatric Epidemiology, Neurotec, Karolinska Institute, Box 6401, S 113 82 Stockholm, Sweden
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 30:791-807. 2006.... - Aging neuromodulation impairs associative binding: a neurocomputational accountShu Chen Li
Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Psychol Sci 16:445-50. 2005..The findings suggest that senescent changes in neuromodulatory mechanisms may play a basic role in aging-related impairment in associative binding by reducing the efficacy of distributed conjunctive coding... - Environmental topography and postural control demands shape aging-associated decrements in spatial navigation performanceMartin Lövdén
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Psychol Aging 20:683-94. 2005..Attempts at supporting older adults' navigation performance should consider sensorimotor/cognitive interactions and qualitative differences in navigational activity... - Cortical EEG correlates of successful memory encoding: implications for lifespan comparisonsMarkus Werkle-Bergner
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Lifespan Psychology, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 30:839-54. 2006..Based on the observation that associative and strategic components of episodic memory seem to follow different age gradients, we propose a conceptual framework for predicting age changes in neuronal patterns of successful encoding...