Ulman Lindenberger

Director of the Research Center for Lifespan Psychology and
Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Office of the Director of the Center for Lifespan Psychology
Helena Maravilla, Sandra Schmidt
seklindenberger@mpib-berlin.mpg.de
Phone: +49 30 82406-572/573

Office of the Managing Director
Astrid Wolff
sekgd@mpib-berlin.mpg.de
Phone: +49 30 82406-126

Co-Director of the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research

Publications

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Memberships and Service (Selection)

Co-Director, Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research
Speaker, International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course (LIFE)
Speaker, International Max Planck Research School for Computational Methods in Psychiatry and Ageing Research (COMP2PSYCH)
Fellow, Max Planck School of Cognition
Scientific Managing Director, Minerva Foundation
Member, Board of Trustees, Max Planck Foundation
Chair, Selection Committee of Supporting Members of the Max Planck Society
Fellow, Association for Psychological Science (APS)
Foreign Member, Class for Social Sciences (Class No IX), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Member, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Member, Board of Trustees of the Jacobs Foundation
Member, Wilhelm-Wundt-Gesellschaft
Fellow, Royal Society

Short CV:

Dr. phil. in Psychology, 1990, Freie Universität Berlin
Habilitation in Psychology, 1998, Freie Universität Berlin
Professor of Psychology, Universität des Saarlandes
Professor of Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin
Professor of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Project Participation:

Research Interests:

Behavioral and neural plasticity across the lifespan
Brain-behavior relations across the lifespan
Lifespan developmental theory
Multivariate developmental methodology
Formal models of behavioral change

Selected Literature:

Tucker-Drob, E. M., De la Fuente, J., Köhncke, Y., Brandmaier, A. M., Nyberg, L., & Lindenberger, U. (2022). A strong dependency between changes in fluid and crystallized abilities in human cognitive aging. Science Advances, 8, Article eabj2422. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj2422

Ghisletta, P., Mason, F., von Oertzen, T., Hertzog, C., Nilsson, L.-G., & Lindenberger, U. (2020). On the use of growth models to study normal cognitive aging. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 44(1), 88–96. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025419851576

Schmiedek, F., Lövdén, M., von Oertzen, T., & Lindenberger, U. (2020). Within-person structures of daily cognitive performance differ from between-person structures of cognitive abilities. PeerJ, 8, Article e9290. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9290

Lindenberger, U., & Lövdén, M. (2019). Brain plasticity in human lifespan development: The exploration-selection-refinement model. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, 1, 197–222. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-devpsych-121318-085229

Brandmaier, A. M., Wenger, E., Bodammer, N. C., Kühn, S., Raz, N., & Lindenberger, U. (2018). Assessing reliability in neuroimaging research through intra-class effect decomposition (ICED). eLife, 7, Article e35718. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.35718

Keresztes, A., Ngo, C. T., Lindenberger, U., Werkle-Bergner, M., & Newcombe, N. S. (2018). Hippocampal maturation drives memory from generalization to specificity. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(8), 676–686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2018.05.004

Shing, Y. L., Brehmer, Y., Heekeren, H., Bäckman, L., & Lindenberger, U. (2016). Neural activation patterns of successful episodic encoding: Reorganization during childhood, maintenance in old age. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 59–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2016.06.003

Garrett, D. D., Nagel, I. E., Preuschhof, C., Burzynska, A. Z., Marchner, J., Wiegert, S., Jungehülsing, G. J., Nyberg, L., Villringer, A., Li, S.-C., Heekeren, H. R., Bäckman, L., & Lindenberger, U. (2015). Amphetamine modulates brain signal variability and working memory in younger and older adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(24), 7593–7598. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1504090112

Lindenberger, U. (2014). Human cognitive aging: Corriger la fortune? Science, 346(6209), 572–578. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1254403

Lindenberger, U., & Mayr, U. (2014). Cognitive aging: Is there a dark side to environmental support? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18(1), 7–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2013.10.006

Freund, J., Brandmaier, A. M., Lewejohann, L., Kirste, I., Kritzler, M., Krüger, A., Sachser, N., Lindenberger, U., & Kempermann, G. (2013). Emergence of individuality in genetically identical mice. Science, 340(6133), 756–759. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1235294

Lövdén, M., Schaefer, S., Noack, H., Bodammer, N. C., Kühn, S., Heinze, H.-J., Düzel, E., Bäckman, L., & Lindenberger, U. (2012). Spatial navigation training protects the hippocampus against age-related changes during early and late adulthood. Neurobiology of Aging, 33(3), 620.e9–620.e22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2011.02.013

Lindenberger, U., von Oertzen, T., Ghisletta, P., & Hertzog, C. (2011). Cross-sectional age variance extraction: What's change got to do with it? Psychology and Aging, 26(1), 34–47. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020525

Lövdén, M., Bäckman, L., Lindenberger, U., Schaefer, S., & Schmiedek, F. (2010). A theoretical framework for the study of adult cognitive plasticity. Psychological Bulletin, 136(4), 659–676. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020080

Schmiedek, F., Lövdén, M., & Lindenberger, U. (2010). Hundred days of cognitive training enhance broad cognitive abilities in adulthood: Findings from the COGITO study. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2, Article 27. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2010.00027

Lindenberger, U., & Ghisletta, P. (2009). Cognitive and sensory declines in old age: Gauging the evidence for a common cause. Psychology and Aging, 24(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0014986

Müller, V., Gruber, W., Klimesch, W., & Lindenberger, U. (2009). Lifespan differences in cortical dynamics of auditory perception. Developmental Science, 12(6), 839–853. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00834.x

Lindenberger, U., Lövdén, M., Schellenbach, M., Li, S.-C., & Krüger, A. (2008). Psychological principles of successful aging technologies: A mini-review. Gerontology, 54(1), 59–68. https://doi.org/10.1159/000116114

Baltes, P. B., Lindenberger, U., & Staudinger, U. M. (2006). Life span theory in developmental psychology. In W. Damon & R. M. Lerner (Eds.), Handbook of child psychology: Vol 1. Theoretical models of human development (6th ed., pp. 569-664). New York: Wiley.

Raz, N., Lindenberger, U., Rodrigue, K. M., Kennedy, K. M., Head, D., Williamson, A., Dahle, C., Gerstorf, D., & Acker, J. D. (2005). Regional brain changes in aging healthy adults: General trends, individual differences and modifiers. Cerebral Cortex, 15(11), 1676-1689. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhi044

Lindenberger, U., Singer, T., & Baltes, P. B. (2002). Longitudinal selectivity in aging populations: Separating mortality-associated versus experimental components in the Berlin Aging Study (BASE). Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 57B(6), P474-P482. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/57.6.P474

Lindenberger, U., Marsiske, M., & Baltes, P. B. (2000). Memorizing while walking: Increase in dual-task costs from young adulthood to old age. Psychology and Aging, 15(3), 417-436. https://doi.org/10.1037/0882-7974.15.3.417

Lindenberger, U., & Pötter, U. (1998). The complex nature of unique and shared effects in hierarchical linear regression: Implications for developmental psychology. Psychological Methods, 3(2), 218-230. https://doi.org/10.1037/1082-989X.3.2.218

Lindenberger, U., & Baltes, P. B. (1997). Intellectual functioning in old and very old age: Cross-sectional results from the Berlin Aging Study. Psychology and Aging, 12(3), 410-432. https://doi.org/10.1037/0882-7974.12.3.410

Chapman, M., & Lindenberger, U. (1992). Transitivity judgments, memory for premises, and models of children's reasoning. Developmental Review, 12(2), 124-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/0273-2297(92)90006-N