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Stojanovic M, Millar P, McKay N, Aschenbrenner A, Balota D, Hassenstab J, et al.
J Alzheimers Dis . 2025 Feb; :13872877251316801. PMID: 39994995
Background: While episodic memory decline is the most common cognitive symptom of Alzheimer's disease (AD), changes in attentional control have also been found to be sensitive to early AD pathology....
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Nejati V, Estaji R, Balanza-Martinez V, Balota D, Barker-Collo S, Bell M, et al.
Sci Rep . 2025 Jan; 15(1):3146. PMID: 39856338
Situational factors can influence cognitive performance and should be considered for conducting cognitive assessments. The objective of this project was to develop a checklist for Cognitive Assessment Requirements (CARE) to...
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Yap M, Tse C, Lim A, Balota D, Besner D
Psychon Bull Rev . 2024 Nov; PMID: 39511108
Important insights in visual word recognition have been provided by studies examining the combined influence of multiple factors on participants' mean response times to English words in the lexical decision...
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Welhaf M, Balota D, Morris J, Hassenstab J, Aschenbrenner A
Psychol Aging . 2024 Jul; 39(5):495-509. PMID: 39052351
Age-related declines in the frequency of mind-wandering are well established. Theories of mind-wandering have attempted to explain why this decline occurs, but no one theory firmly predicts such changes. One...
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Miklashevsky A, Reifegerste J, Garcia A, Pulvermuller F, Balota D, Verissimo J, et al.
J Exp Psychol Gen . 2024 May; 153(7):1725-1764. PMID: 38780562
Processing action words (e.g., ) engages neurocognitive motor representations, consistent with embodied cognition principles. Despite age-related neurocognitive changes that could affect action words, and a rapidly aging population, the impact...
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Welhaf M, Wilks H, Aschenbrenner A, Balota D, Schindler S, Benzinger T, et al.
J Int Neuropsychol Soc . 2024 Jan; 30(5):428-438. PMID: 38282413
Objective: Maintaining attention underlies many aspects of cognition and becomes compromised early in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease (AD). The consistency of maintaining attention can be measured with reaction time...
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Keleman A, Nicosia J, Bollinger R, Wisch J, Hassenstab J, Morris J, et al.
J Alzheimers Dis Rep . 2023 Jul; 7(1):739-750. PMID: 37483329
Background: Individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) are more than twice as likely to incur a serious fall as the general population of older adults. Although AD is commonly associated with...
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Millar P, Balota D
Brain Sci . 2022 Dec; 12(12). PMID: 36552069
Older adults exhibit deficits in episodic memory tasks, which have often been attributed to encoding or retrieval deficits, with little attention to consolidation mechanisms. More recently, researchers have attempted to...
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Lenze E, Voegtle M, Miller J, Ances B, Balota D, Barch D, et al.
JAMA . 2022 Dec; 328(22):2218-2229. PMID: 36511926
Importance: Episodic memory and executive function are essential aspects of cognitive functioning that decline with aging. This decline may be ameliorable with lifestyle interventions. Objective: To determine whether mindfulness-based stress...
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Nicosia J, Balota D
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn . 2022 Oct; 50(2):266-286. PMID: 36265044
Mind-wandering (MW) is a universal cognitive process that is estimated to comprise ~30% of our everyday thoughts. Despite its prevalence, the functional utility of MW remains a scientific blind spot....