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Papers

(The median citation count of Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Examination of the reliability and feasibility of two smartphone applications to assess executive functioning in racially diverse older adults	30
Age differences in emotional reactivity to facets of sadness and anger	18
Reliability and Validity of a Home-Based Self-Administered Computerized Test of Learning and Memory Using Speech Recognition	16
The evolution of subjective cognition after meditation training in older people: a secondary analysis of the three-arm age-well randomized controlled trial	16
Critical menarche age for late-life dementia and the role of education and socioeconomic status	14
Computational modeling of selective attention differentiates subtypes of amnestic mild cognitive impairment	14
The association between memory, COVID-19 testing, and COVID-19 incidence in middle-aged and older adults: a prospective analysis of the CLSA	11
Disentangling the role of executive function and episodic memory in older adults’ performance on dynamic theory of mind tasks	10
Not all mentally stimulating activities are alike: insights from a 4-factor model and implications for late-life cognition	10
Age differences in spatial memory are mitigated during naturalistic navigation	10
Subjective cognitive decline disrupts aspects of prospective memory in older adults with HIV disease	9
Contributions of representational distinctiveness and stability to memory performance and age differences	9
The impact of phonological short-term memory impairment on verbal repetition in the logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia	9
Time spent imagining does not influence younger and older adults’ episodic simulation of helping behavior	9
Executive function and episodic memory composite scores in older adults: relations with sex, mood, and subjective sleep quality	8
Age-based stereotype threat and neuropsychological performance in older adults	7
The effect of age and fluid intelligence on working memory in different modalities among elderly individuals: a moderated mediation analysis	7
The contribution of discursive and cognitive factors in referential choices made by elderly people during a narrative task	7
Shift happens: aging alters the content but not the organization of memory for complex events	6
Exploring the association between religious participation and memory in middle- and older-aged adults in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging	6
Differences in auditory associative memory between younger adults and older adults	6
Drawing compared to writing in a diary enhances recall of autobiographical memories	6
The roles of executive functioning, simple attention, and medial temporal lobes in early learning, late learning, and delayed recall	5
An older adult advantage in autobiographical recall	5
A simple counting of verbal fluency errors discriminates between normal cognition, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease	5

Cognitive complaints in older adults: relationships between self and informant report, objective test performance, and symptoms of depression	5
Frontal and temporal lobe correlates of verbal learning and memory in aMCI and suspected Alzheimer’s disease dementia	5
Age differences in social-cognitive abilities across the stages of adulthood and path model investigation of adult social cognition	5
How do older adults correct memory errors? The effects of practice and metacognitive strategies	5
Age-related changes in the effects of induced positive affect on executive control in younger and older adults—evidence from a task-switching paradigm	5
Recall and recognition subtests of the repeatable battery for the assessment of neuropsychological status and their relationship to biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease	5
Sense of purpose in life and extending the cognitive healthspan: evidence from multistate survival modeling	5
Investigating the impact of healthy aging on memory for temporal duration and order	4
Naturalistic assessments in virtual reality and in real life help resolve the age-prospective memory paradox	4
Effectiveness of a year-long individual cognitive stimulation program in Portuguese older adults with cognitive impairment	4
Serial and strategic memory processes in younger and older adults	4
Effects of increasing fitness through exercise training on language comprehension in monolingual and bilingual older adults: a randomized controlled trial	4
Assessment-related anxiety among older adults: associations with neuropsychological test performance	4
Aging alters the details recollected from emotional narratives	4
Rumination in dementia and its relationship with depression, anxiety, and attentional biases	4
Improvement in executive function for older adults through smartphone apps: a randomized clinical trial comparing language learning and brain training	4
Sensitivity of memory subtests and learning slopes from the ADAS-Cog to distinguish along the continuum of the NIA-AA Research Framework for Alzheimer’s Disease	4
Self-reported physical activity and sleep quality is associated with working memory function in middle-aged and older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Teaching older adults to use retrieval practice improves their self-regulated learning	3
Preserved memory for decisions across adulthood	3
Phonemic word fluency is related to temporal and striatal gray matter volume in healthy older adults	3
Age-related differences in cerebrovascular responses to cognitive stimulation using a novel method	3
Developing a Danish version of the LASSI-L test – reliability and predictive value in patients with mild cognitive impairment, mild dementia due to AD and subjective cognitive decline	3
CERAD-NAB and flexible battery based neuropsychological differentiation of Alzheimer’s dementia and depression using machine learning approaches	3
Evidence for the role of affective theory of mind in face-name associative memory	3
Knowing more than we know: metacognition, semantic fluency, and originality in younger and older adults	3
How well does the discrepancy between semantic and letter verbal fluency performance distinguish Alzheimer’s dementia from typical aging?	3
Association of cardiometabolic health factors with age-related executive function and episodic memory	3
Impaired executive functioning mediates the association between aging and deterministic sequence learning	3
The impact of timing perception strategy on intertemporal decision-making in older adults: the role of subjective time perception	3
Longitudinal association between subjective and objective memory in older adults: a study with the Virginia Cognitive Aging Project sample	3
Metacognition for hearing in noise: a comparison between younger and older adults	3
Examining cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between multidomain physical fitness metrics, education, and cognition in Black older adults	3
“I don’t know who you are”: anomia for people’s names in Alzheimer’s disease	3
Age-related neural dedifferentiation for individual stimuli: an across-participant pattern similarity analysis	3
Ask how they did it: untangling the relationships between task-specific strategy use, everyday strategy use, and associative memory	3
A graph theoretic approach to neurodegeneration: five data-driven neuropsychological subtypes in mild cognitive impairment	3
Impact of cardiovascular risk factors on the relationships of physical activity with mood and cognitive function in a diverse sample	3
A tale of two ages: fluid reasoning as a predictor of working memory training efficacy in middle-aged and older adults	2
Beyond social engagement: cognitive training leads to greater cognitive improvement in older adults	2
Which variables moderate the relationship between depressive symptoms and global neurocognition across adulthood?	2
Is there an emotionality effect in older adults’ source memory?	2
Influence of target-distractor neural similarity on working memory performance in older and younger adults	2
The influence of interruptions and planning on serial everyday multitasking in older adults	2
Age differences in inhibitory and working memory functioning: limited evidence of system interactions	2
Goal-directed remembering in older adults	2
Cognitive reserve and emotion recognition in the context of normal aging	2
Neural correlates of affective empathy in aging: A multimodal imaging and multivariate approach	2
Relationship between a novel learning slope metric and Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers	2
Do older adults make more risky decisions in the Hungry Donkey Task or in the Iowa Gambling Task?	2

Does the association between objective and subjective memory vary by age among healthy older adults?	2
Detecting mild cognitive impairment remotely with the modified memory impairment screen by telephone	2
Age does not modify the processing architecture of dual memory retrieval: an investigation of age-related effects on dual-retrieval practice in younger and older adults	2
The effects of language learning on cognitive functioning and psychosocial well-being in cognitively healthy older adults: A semi-blind randomized controlled trial	2
A randomized control trial of a behavioral intervention for older adults with subjective cognitive complaints that combines cognitive rehabilitation strategies and lifestyle modifications	2
Age differences in effectiveness of encoding techniques on memory	2
Decision Making across Adulthood during Physical Distancing	2
Acquisition and consolidation of verbal learning and episodic memory as predictors of the conversion from mild cognitive impairment to probable Alzheimer’s disease	2
Reducing misclassification of mild cognitive impairment based on base rate information from the Uniform data set	2
Racial differences in the effect of verbal and nonverbal memory on concrete planning for future care needs among older adults: a multi-group structural equation modeling approach	2
Executive functioning predicts discrepancies between objective and self-reported physical activity in older adults: a pilot study	2