OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition is 5. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Examination of the reliability and feasibility of two smartphone applications to assess executive functioning in racially diverse older adults	32
The evolution of subjective cognition after meditation training in older people: a secondary analysis of the three-arm age-well randomized controlled trial	19
Age differences in emotional reactivity to facets of sadness and anger	15
Critical menarche age for late-life dementia and the role of education and socioeconomic status	14
Disentangling the role of executive function and episodic memory in older adults’ performance on dynamic theory of mind tasks	13
Computational modeling of selective attention differentiates subtypes of amnestic mild cognitive impairment	12
The association between memory, COVID-19 testing, and COVID-19 incidence in middle-aged and older adults: a prospective analysis of the CLSA	12
Subjective cognitive decline disrupts aspects of prospective memory in older adults with HIV disease	9
Age differences in spatial memory are mitigated during naturalistic navigation	9
Executive function and episodic memory composite scores in older adults: relations with sex, mood, and subjective sleep quality	9
Not all mentally stimulating activities are alike: insights from a 4-factor model and implications for late-life cognition	9
Contributions of representational distinctiveness and stability to memory performance and age differences	9
Time spent imagining does not influence younger and older adults’ episodic simulation of helping behavior	9
The effect of age and fluid intelligence on working memory in different modalities among elderly individuals: a moderated mediation analysis	8
The contribution of discursive and cognitive factors in referential choices made by elderly people during a narrative task	8
Age-based stereotype threat and neuropsychological performance in older adults	8
The impact of phonological short-term memory impairment on verbal repetition in the logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia	7
The roles of executive functioning, simple attention, and medial temporal lobes in early learning, late learning, and delayed recall	7
Metacognition for prospective memory performance in younger and older adults: does the reference point affect our judgments?	7
Shift happens: aging alters the content but not the organization of memory for complex events	7
Drawing compared to writing in a diary enhances recall of autobiographical memories	7
Exploring the association between religious participation and memory in middle- and older-aged adults in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging	7
Age differences in social-cognitive abilities across the stages of adulthood and path model investigation of adult social cognition	7
Age-related changes in the effects of induced positive affect on executive control in younger and older adults—evidence from a task-switching paradigm	6
Sense of purpose in life and extending the cognitive healthspan: evidence from multistate survival modeling	6

Rumination in dementia and its relationship with depression, anxiety, and attentional biases	6
Naturalistic assessments in virtual reality and in real life help resolve the age-prospective memory paradox	6
Frontal and temporal lobe correlates of verbal learning and memory in aMCI and suspected Alzheimer’s disease dementia	6
Serial and strategic memory processes in younger and older adults	6
How do older adults correct memory errors? The effects of practice and metacognitive strategies	6
Investigating the impact of healthy aging on memory for temporal duration and order	6
Recall and recognition subtests of the repeatable battery for the assessment of neuropsychological status and their relationship to biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease	6
An older adult advantage in autobiographical recall	6
A simple counting of verbal fluency errors discriminates between normal cognition, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease	6
Cognitive complaints in older adults: relationships between self and informant report, objective test performance, and symptoms of depression	6
Effects of increasing fitness through exercise training on language comprehension in monolingual and bilingual older adults: a randomized controlled trial	6
Improvement in executive function for older adults through smartphone apps: a randomized clinical trial comparing language learning and brain training	5
Effectiveness of a year-long individual cognitive stimulation program in Portuguese older adults with cognitive impairment	5
Assessment-related anxiety among older adults: associations with neuropsychological test performance	5
Self-reported physical activity and sleep quality is associated with working memory function in middle-aged and older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Examining cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between multidomain physical fitness metrics, education, and cognition in Black older adults	5
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	5
Aging alters the details recollected from emotional narratives	5