Research

Studies

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Funding

Funding comes from the National Institutes on Aging , the Office of Research on Women’s Health, and the Alzheimer’s Association, the Hansen Thorell Award and the Kathleen Gilmore Biology of Aging Award.

Publications

Fox, R. Chaudhari, N., Bhattacharya, S., Imms, P., Eich, T., Mack, W. Gatz, M. & Irimia, A. Women’s Reproductive Factors Predict Local Brain Aging Profiles Mapped using Deep Neural Networks. (2026). Geroscience.

Amin, S., Yoon, D., Naveen, R., El-Magharbel, Y., Vincent, A., Chien, C.Y. & Eich, T (2025). Divergent Effects of Sleep Efficiency and Sleep Medication on Episodic Memory in Mid to Late Life. Frontiers in Sleep.

Chopra, S., Yoon, D. & Eich, T. (2025). Views of Menopause and Hormone Therapy Associations with Hormone Therapy use in US Women aged 50-79. Women’s Health Reports.

Pournaghdali, A., & Eich, T. S (2025). Cautionary response strategy and impairment of post- conflict response selection underlie age-related differences in a location-based Stroop task. Frontiers in Psychology: Psychology of Aging.

Balado, J.J., Habeck, C., Stern, Y. & Eich, T. S. (2024). The relationship between white matter     hyperintensities and cortical thickness in mid to late-life. Neurobiology of Aging.

Chien, J. & Eich, T. S. (2024). Does stereotype threat influence age-related differences on directed forgetting tasks? Frontiers in Psychology: Psychology of Aging.

Eich, T. S., Langfield, C., Sakhardande, 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 Aging Neuroscience, 15, 1152582.

Corlier, F. & Eich, T. S (2023). Principal component analysis reveals multiple dimensions of memory inhibition that are differentially affected by age. Frontiers in Psychology: Psychology    of Aging, 13, 1020915.

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, 38(1), 30-48

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, 152(2), 464-    482.

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(1), 1955.

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. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 15, 695416, 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, 76(10), 2013-2022.

 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, 106, 95-102.

Balado, J.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, 116, 146-159, Special Issue:Aging in the Nervous System”.

Metcalfe, J., Schwartz, B.& Eich, T.S. (2020) Epistemic Curiosity and the Region of Proximal Learning.Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 35, 40-47.

 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 modelling approach. PLOSOne, 15(2), e0228167.

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 in Human Neuroscience, 13, 449.

Eich, T. S., Tsapanou, A., & Stern, Y. (2019). Whentime’sarrow doesn’t bend: APOE-ε4 influences episodic memory before old age.  Neuropsychologia, 133, 107180. 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.

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.

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., Parker, D., Lee, S. & Stern,Y. (2017). Dynamic patterns of brain structure-behavior correlation across the life span. Cerebral Cortex. 27(7), 3586-99.

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

 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.

Tsapanou, A., Gu, Y., O’Shea, D., Eich, T., 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.

 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.

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., 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.

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

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

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

 Eich, T. S & Smith, E. E. (2012). Cognitive Neuroscience.  Oxford Bibliographies Online.

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

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.

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.

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