Concluded Groups

An overview of the concluded activities of the Center for Lifespan Psychology can be found here. Some of the respective project or group leaders have moved to other research institutions and are mostly continuing their work on these research topics. You can find their papers from the period of their work at the Institute in the LIP publication list.


This project was headed by Viktor Müller and investigated lifespan changes in behavioral and neuronal mechanisms that permit individuals to coordinate their behavior with each other in time and space.

This former Emmy Noether Group (2017–2023) was led by Douglas Garrett as part of the Berlin site of the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research.

This Minerva Group was headed by Myriam Sander from 2014 to 2024.


This project was launched in 2009 by Yee Lee Shing (now at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) and Markus Werkle-Bergner at the Center for Lifespan Psychology. From 2016, the project was co-led by Myriam Sander. In 2019, the ConMem project was concluded.

This project was concluded at the MPI for Human Development in 2018. It was led by Julius Verrel (meanwhile at Universität zu Lübeck).

Yee Lee Shing (now at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) led this group on environmental effects on brain and cognitive development from 2012 until 2016.

This project was concluded at the MPI for Human Development in 2012 and is being continued at the Technische Universität Dresden by Shu-Chen Li.

This group was led by Martin Lövdén from 2007 to 2010. The research focused on the plasticity of brain and behavior in adulthood and old age.
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