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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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

Age differences in social-cognitive abilities across the stages of adulthood and path model investigation of adult social cognition	6
The roles of executive functioning, simple attention, and medial temporal lobes in early learning, late learning, and delayed recall	6
A simple counting of verbal fluency errors discriminates between normal cognition, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease	5
How do older adults correct memory errors? The effects of practice and metacognitive strategies	5
Naturalistic assessments in virtual reality and in real life help resolve the age-prospective memory paradox	5
Sense of purpose in life and extending the cognitive healthspan: evidence from multistate survival modeling	5
Rumination in dementia and its relationship with depression, anxiety, and attentional biases	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
Investigating the impact of healthy aging on memory for temporal duration and order	5
Serial and strategic memory processes in younger and older adults	5
Cognitive complaints in older adults: relationships between self and informant report, objective test performance, and symptoms of depression	5
Effects of increasing fitness through exercise training on language comprehension in monolingual and bilingual older adults: a randomized controlled trial	5
Improvement in executive function for older adults through smartphone apps: a randomized clinical trial comparing language learning and brain training	5
Teaching older adults to use retrieval practice improves their self-regulated learning	4
Preserved memory for decisions across adulthood	4
Assessment-related anxiety among older adults: associations with neuropsychological test performance	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
Phonemic word fluency is related to temporal and striatal gray matter volume in healthy older adults	4
Examining cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between multidomain physical fitness metrics, education, and cognition in Black older adults	4
Effectiveness of a year-long individual cognitive stimulation program in Portuguese older adults with cognitive impairment	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
Knowing more than we know: metacognition, semantic fluency, and originality in younger and older adults	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
Aging alters the details recollected from emotional narratives	4