Publications

Aghjayan, S. L., Polk, S. E., Ripperger, H. S., Huang, H., Wan, L., Kamarck, T., Marsland, A. L., Kang, C., Voss, M. W., Sutton, B. P., Oberlin, L. E., Burns, J. M., Vidoni, E. D., McAuley, E., Hillman, C. H., Kramer, A. F., & Erickson, K. I. (2025). Associations between episodic memory and hippocampal volume in late adulthood. Hippocampus, 35(2), Article e70010. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.70010

Buchberger, E., Brandmaier, A. M., Lindenberger, U., Werkle-Bergner, M., & Ngo, C. T. (in press). The process structure of memory abilities in early and middle childhood [Registered Report]. Developmental Science.

Cohen, S. S., Ngo, C. T., Olson, I. R., & Newcombe, N. S. (2025). Pattern separation and pattern completion in early childhood. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(11), Article e2416985122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2416985122

Crine, V., Papenberg, G., Johansson, J., Boraxbekk, C.-J., Wåhlin, A., Lindenberger, U., Lövdén, M., Riklund, K., Bäckman, L., Nyberg, L., & Karalija, N. (2025). Associations between inflammation and striatal dopamine D2-receptor availability in aging. Journal of Neuroinflammation, 22, Article 24. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12974-025-03355-0

Dutt, S., Bachman, S. L., Dahl, M. J., Li, Y., Yew, B., Jang, J. Y., Ho, J. K., Nashiro, K., Min, J., Yoo, H. J., Gaubert, A., Nguyen, A., Blanken, A. E., Sible, I. J., Marshall, A. J., Kapoor, A., Alitin, J. P. M., Hoang, K., Rouanet, J., Sordo, L., Head, E., Shao, X., Wang, D. J. J., Mather, M., & Nation, D. A. (2025). Locus coeruleus MRI contrast, cerebral perfusion, and plasma Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in older adults. Neurobiology of Aging, 147, 12–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2024.11.008

Fraemke, D., Willems, Y. E., Okbay, A., Lindenberger, U., Zinn, S., Wagner, G. G., Richter, D., Harden, K. P., Tucker-Drob, E. M., Hertwig, R., Koellinger, P., & Raffington, L. (in press). Polygenic associations with educational attainment in East versus West Germany: Differences emerge after reunification. Psychological Science.

Gerdemann, S. C., Vaish, A., & Hepach, R. (2025). Body posture as a measure of emotional valence in young children: A preregistered validation study. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology, 3, Article 1536440. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdpys.2025.1536440

Gerstorf, D., Aichele, S., Lindenberger, U., Rabbitt, P., & Ghisletta, P. (in press). Little to no evidence for historical improvements in verbal learning among older adults. Psychology and Aging.

Ghisletta, P., Aichele, S., Gerstorf, D., Carollo, A., & Lindenberger, U. (2025). Verbal fluency selectively predicts survival in old and very old age. Psychological Science, 36(2), 87–101. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976241311923

Haupt, M., Garrett, D. D., & Cichy, R. M. (2025). Healthy aging delays and dedifferentiates high-level visual representations. Current Biology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.03.062

Lalwani, P., Polk, T. A., & Garrett, D. D. (in press). Modulation of neural variability: Age-related reduction, GABAergic basis, and behavioral implications. eLife.

Lalwani, P., Polk, T., & Garrett, D. D. (2025). Modulation of brain signal variability in visual cortex reflects aging, GABA, and behavior. eLife, 13, Article e83865. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.83865

Mooraj, Z., Salami, A., Campbell, K. L., Dahl, M. J., Kosciessa, J. Q., Nassar, M. R., Werkle-Bergner, M., Craik, F. I. M., Lindenberger, U., Mayr, U., Rajah, M. N., Raz, N., Nyberg, L., & Garrett, D. D. (2025). Toward a functional future for the cognitive neuroscience of human aging. Neuron, 113(1), 154–183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2024.12.008

Müller, L., & Di Benedetto, S. (2025). Neuroimmune crosstalk in chronic neuroinflammation: Microglial interactions and immune modulation. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 19, Article 1575022. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2025.1575022

Müller, L., Di Benedetto, S., & Müller, V. (2025). From homeostasis to neuroinflammation: Insights into cellular and molecular interactions and network dynamics. Cells, 14(1), Article 54. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells14010054

Papenberg, G., Karalija, N., Salami, A., Johansson, J., Wåhlin, A., Andersson, M., Axelsson, J., Garrett, D. D., Riklund, K., Lindenberger, U., Nyberg, L., & Bäckman, L. (2025). Aging-related losses in dopamine D2/3 receptor availability are linked to working-memory decline across five years. Cerebral Cortex, 35(2), Article bhae481. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae481

Silva Díaz, J. A., Heene, M., & Brandmaier, A. M. (2025). Evaluation of structural equation model forests' performance to identify omitted influential covariates. Structural Equation Modeling, 32(2), 319–331. https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2024.2417866

Tsikonofilos, K., Kumar, A., Ampatzis, K., Garrett, D. D., & Månsson, K. N. T. (2025). The promise of investigating neural variability in psychiatric disorders. Biological Psychiatry. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.02.004

Vidal-Piñeiro, D., Sørensen, Ø., Strømstad, M., Amlien, I. K., Anderson, M., Baaré, W. F. C., Bartrés-Faz, D., Brandmaier, A. M., Bråthen, A. C., Garrido, P., Ghisletta, P., Grydeland, H., Henson, R. N., Kievit, R. A., Kormacher, M., Kühn, S., Lindenberger, U., Mowinckel, A. M., Nyberg, L., Roe, J. M., Sneve, M. H., Sole-Padulles, C., Watne, L.-O., Walhovd, K. B., & Fjell, A. M. (2025). Reliability of structural brain change in cognitively healthy adult samples. Imaging Neuroscience. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00547

Waschke, L., Kamp, F., van den Elzen, E., Krishna, S., Lindenberger, U., Rutishauser, U., & Garrett, D. D. (2025). Single-neuron spiking variability in hippocampus dynamically tracks sensory content during memory formation in humans. Nature Communications, 16, Article 236. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55406-4