Research

Studies

The SAGE Study is currently recruiting participants between the ages of 50-90 for a new study investigating cognition, brain function and hormones! To learn more, click here.

Funding

Funding for the Lifespan Cognition Lab is provided by the National Institutes on Aging and the Alzheimer’s Association.

Publications

2023

Chien, J. C.-Y.  & Eich, T.S. (2023). Does stereotype threat influence age-related differences on directed forgetting tasks? Frontiers in Psychology: Psychology and Aging.

Eich, T.S., Langfield, C.., Sakhardandem J., Gazes, Y., Habeck, C., & Stern, Y. (2023). Older adults compensate for switch, but not mixing costs, relative to younger adults on an intrinsically cued task switching experiment. Frontiers in Neurocognitive Aging and Behavior, 15.

Corlier, F. & Eich, T. S (2023).  Principal component analysis reveals multiple dimensions of memory inhibition that are differentially affected by age. Frontiers in Psychology and Aging.

2022

Schwartz, S.T., Siegel, A.M., Eich, T.S.& Castel, A.D (2022). Value-Directed Memory Selectivity Relies on Goal-Directed Knowledge of Value Structure Prior to Encoding in Young and Older Adults. Psychology and Aging

Metcalfe, J., Towner, E. & Vuorre, M., Eich, T.S. (2022).  Curiosity: The Effects of Feedback and Confidence on the Desire to Know.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Balado, J.J., Corlier, F., Habeck, C., Stern, Y. & Eich, T.S. (2022). Effects of White Matter Hyperintensities distribution and clustering on late-life cognitive impairment. Nature Scientific Reports, 12.

2021

Balado, J.J.,Ycaza Herrera, A., Igwe, K., Kelm, L., Irimia, A., Buyukturkoglu, K., Guo, J., Brickman, A. & Eich, T.S. (2021).  Lower hippocampal GABA+ is associated with poorer episodic memory in older women: A pilot study. Fronteirs in Behavioral Neuroscience, Special Issue:  “Sex Hormone Fluctuations Across the Female Lifespan: Mechanisms of Action on Brain Structure, Function, and Behavior”.

Siegel, A.M & Eich, T.S. (2021).Age, Sex, and Inhibitory Control: Identifying A Specific Impairment in Memorial, But Not Perceptual, Inhibition in Older Women.Journal of Gerontology B: Psychological Sciences.

Eich, T.S., Lau, P. & Anderson, M. C. (2021).  Cortical thinning in the right Inferior Frontal Gyrus mediates age-related performance differences on an item-method directed forgetting task.  Neurobiology of Aging.

Balado, J. & Eich, T.S. (2021).  GABAergic dysfunction, neural network hyperactivity and memory impairments in human aging and Alzheimer’s Disease.  Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. Special Issue: “Aging in the nervous system”

2020

Metcalfe, J., Schwartz, B.& Eich, T.S. (2020) Epistemic Curiosity and the Region of Proximal Learning. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.

Eich, T.S., Parker, D., Gazes, Y., Razlighi, Q., Habeck, C., & Stern, Y. (2020). Towards an ontology of cognitive processes and their neural substrates: A structural equation modeling approach. PLOSOne.

Habeck, C., Eich, T.S., Gu, Y & Stern, Y. (2020). Occupational Patterns of Structural Brain Health: Independent Contributions Beyond Age, Gender, Intelligence, and Education. Frontiers Human Neuroscience.

2019

Eich, T. S., Tsapanou, A., & Stern, Y. (2019). When time’s arrow doesn’t bend: APOE-ε4 influences episodic memory before old age.  Neuropsychologia. Special Issue: “Endel Tulving”

Metcalfe, J. & Eich, T.S. (2019).  Memory and truth: correcting errors with true feedback versus overwriting correct answers with errors. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 4(1), 4.

2018

Habeck, C., Eich, T.S., Razlighi, Q., Gazes, Y. & Stern, Y. (2018). Reference ability neural networks and behavioral performance across the adult life span. NeuroImage. 172, 51-63.

2017

Eich, T.S., Razlighi, Q. & Stern,Y. (2017). Perceptual and memory inhibition are associated with region-specific, doubly dissociable patterns of cortical thinning in clinically healthy older adults. Behavioral Neuroscience, 131(3), 220-5.

Razlighi, Q., Oh, H., Habeck, C., O’Shea, D., Gazes, Y., Eich, T.S., Parker, D., Lee, S. & Stern,Y. (2017). Dynamic patterns of brain structure-behavior correlation across the life span. Cerebral Cortex. 27(7), 3586-99.

2016

Eich, T. S., MacKay-Brandt , A., Stern, Y & Gopher, D. (2016). Age-based differences in task switching performance costs are moderated by dissociable executive control demands. Journal of Gerontology B: Psychological Sciences, 73 (6), 954-63.

Eich, T. S. Parker, D., Liu, D., Oh, H., Razlighi, Q., Gazes, Y., Habeck, C. & Stern,Y. (2016).  Functional brain and age-related changes associated with congruency in task switching.  Neuropsychologia, 91, 211-21.

Eich, T. S. & Castel, A. D.  (2016). The cognitive control of emotional versus value-based information in younger and older adults. Psychology & Aging, 31 (5), 503-12.

Eich, T. S., Gonçalves, B., Razlighi, Q., Nee, D. E, Jonides, J. &  Stern, Y. (2016). Attentional and memorial inhibitory selection mechanisms in clinically healthy older and younger adults. Journal of Gerontology B: Psychological Sciences, 73(4), 612-21.

Tsapanou, A., Gu, Y., O’Shea, D., Eich, T.S., Tang, M-X., Schupf, N., Manly, J., Scarmeas, N. & Stern, Y. (2016). Daytime somnolence as an early sign of cognitive decline in a community-based study of elderly. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 31 (3), 247-55.

2015

Eich, T. S, Rakitin, B.C. & Stern, Y. (2015). Response-conflict moderates the cognitive control of episodic and contextual load in older adults. Journal of Gerontology B: Psychological Sciences, 71 (6), 995-1003.

2014

Eich, T. S., Murayama, K., Castel, A. & Knowlton, B. (2014). The Dynamic Effects of Age-Related Stereotype Threat on Explicit and Implicit Memory Performance in Older Adults. Social Cognition, 32 (6), 559-70.

Ahmari, S., Eich, T.S., Cebenoyan, D., Smith, E. E. & Simpson, B. H. (2014) Assessing neurocognitive function in psychiatric disorders: a roadmap for enhancing consensus. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 115, 10-20. PMID: 24994503

Eich, T. S., Nee, D., Insel, K., Malapani, C. & Smith, E. E.  (2014).  Neural correlates of impaired control over working memory in Schizophrenia.  Biological Psychiatry, 76(2), 146-53. PMID: 24239131

Eich, T. S. & Smith, E. E.  (2014).  Schizophrenia and emotional rubbernecking. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, Special Issue: “Edward Smith”, 14(1), 202-8. PMID: 24150903, PMCID: PMC4581430

2013

Metcalfe, J, Eich, T. S. & Miele, D.  (2013).  Metacognition of agency: Proximal action and distal outcome.  Experimental Brain Research, 229, 485-96. PMID: 23358706

2012

Eich, T. S., Metcalfe, J. & Stern, Y.  (2012). The hypercorrection effect in younger and older adults.  Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 20, 511-21. PMID: 23241028; PMCID: PMC3604148

Eich, T. S. & Smith, E. E.  (2012).  Cognitive Neuroscience.  Oxford Bibliographies Online. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199828340-0015

2011

Smith, E. E., Eich, T. S., Cebenoyan, D. & Malapani, C. (2011).  Intact and impaired cognitive control processes in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 126, 132-7. PMID: 21211945

2010-2009

Metcalfe, J., Eich, T. S., & Castel, A. D. (2010) Metacognition of agency across the lifespan:  Similar and differential effects in college students, older adults and children. Cognition, 116(2), 267-282. PMID: 20570251

Kornell, N., Castel, A. D., Eich, T. S., & Bjork, R. A.  (2010).  Spacing as the friend of both memory and induction in younger and older adults.  Psychology and Aging, 25, 498-503. PMID: 20545435

Eich, T. S. & Metcalfe, J. (2009).  Effects of the stress of marathon running on implicit and explicit memory.  Psychological Bulletin & Review, 16, 475-479. PMID: 19451371