OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition is 4. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Examination of the reliability and feasibility of two smartphone applications to assess executive functioning in racially diverse older adults	30
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
Age differences in spatial memory are mitigated during naturalistic navigation	12
Disentangling the role of executive function and episodic memory in older adults’ performance on dynamic theory of mind tasks	12
Computational modeling of selective attention differentiates subtypes of amnestic mild cognitive impairment	11
Time spent imagining does not influence younger and older adults’ episodic simulation of helping behavior	9
The association between memory, COVID-19 testing, and COVID-19 incidence in middle-aged and older adults: a prospective analysis of the CLSA	9
Subjective cognitive decline disrupts aspects of prospective memory in older adults with HIV disease	9
Not all mentally stimulating activities are alike: insights from a 4-factor model and implications for late-life cognition	9
The effect of age and fluid intelligence on working memory in different modalities among elderly individuals: a moderated mediation analysis	8
Executive function and episodic memory composite scores in older adults: relations with sex, mood, and subjective sleep quality	8
Contributions of representational distinctiveness and stability to memory performance and age differences	8
The contribution of discursive and cognitive factors in referential choices made by elderly people during a narrative task	7
Drawing compared to writing in a diary enhances recall of autobiographical memories	7
The impact of phonological short-term memory impairment on verbal repetition in the logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia	7
Shift happens: aging alters the content but not the organization of memory for complex events	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	7
Age-based stereotype threat and neuropsychological performance in older adults	7
Exploring the association between religious participation and memory in middle- and older-aged adults in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging	7
The roles of executive functioning, simple attention, and medial temporal lobes in early learning, late learning, and delayed recall	7
Effects of increasing fitness through exercise training on language comprehension in monolingual and bilingual older adults: a randomized controlled trial	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

Improvement in executive function for older adults through smartphone apps: a randomized clinical trial comparing language learning and brain training	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
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
Age differences in social-cognitive abilities across the stages of adulthood and path model investigation of adult social cognition	6
Cognitive complaints in older adults: relationships between self and informant report, objective test performance, and symptoms of depression	6
Rumination in dementia and its relationship with depression, anxiety, and attentional biases	6
Sense of purpose in life and extending the cognitive healthspan: evidence from multistate survival modeling	6
Effectiveness of a year-long individual cognitive stimulation program in Portuguese older adults with cognitive impairment	5
Aging alters the details recollected from emotional narratives	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
Examining cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between multidomain physical fitness metrics, education, and cognition in Black older adults	5
Naturalistic assessments in virtual reality and in real life help resolve the age-prospective memory paradox	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
Assessment-related anxiety among older adults: associations with neuropsychological test performance	5
Exploring the perceptual and cognitive deficits in older individuals and individuals with Alzheimer’s disease using the dichotic double-word test- Kannada (DDWT-K)	4
Preserved memory for decisions across adulthood	4
How well does the discrepancy between semantic and letter verbal fluency performance distinguish Alzheimer’s dementia from typical aging?	4
Evidence for the role of affective theory of mind in face-name associative memory	4
Teaching older adults to use retrieval practice improves their self-regulated learning	4
Metacognition for hearing in noise: a comparison between younger and older adults	4
Impact of cardiovascular risk factors on the relationships of physical activity with mood and cognitive function in a diverse sample	4
Phonemic word fluency is related to temporal and striatal gray matter volume in healthy older adults	4
Knowing more than we know: metacognition, semantic fluency, and originality in younger and older adults	4
“I don’t know who you are”: anomia for people’s names in Alzheimer’s disease	4
Impaired executive functioning mediates the association between aging and deterministic sequence learning	4