Aging Research Center (ARC) E-mail: martin.lovden@ki.se |
Martin Lövdén received his Ph. D. from Stockholm University in 2002. After a one-year post doc at Saarland University, Germany, he spent three years as an international research fellow at the Center for Lifespan Psychology (director: Ulman Lindenberger), Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany. Between 2007 and 2010 he headed an independent research group on behavioral and neuronal plasticity, which was funded by a Sofja Kovalevskaja award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. During that period he also held an assistant professorship at the Department of Psychology, Lund University, Sweden.
Martin Lövdén is currently a senior researcher at Aging Research Center (ARC). His research deals with the question of how experience shapes development of brain and cognition in adulthood and old age. He approaches the interactions among lifestyle, brain anatomy, and cognitive functioning with experimentally-controlled intervention studies as well as with statistical modeling of naturally occurring between- and within-person variability and change.
Selected publications
Lövdén, M., Bäckman, L., Lindenberger, U., Schaefer, S., & Schmiedek, F. (2010). A theoretical framework for the study of adult cognitive plasticity. Psychological Bulletin, 136, 659-676.
Schmiedek, F., Lövdén, M., & Lindenberger, U. (2009). On the relation of mean reaction time and intraindividual reaction time variability. Psychology and Aging, 24, 841-857.
Noack, H., Lövdén, M., Schmiedek, F., & Lindenberger, U. (2009). Cognitive plasticity in adulthood and old age: Gauging the generality of cognitive intervention effects. Restorative Neurology and Neurosciences, 27, 535-553.
Lövdén, M., Li, S-C., Shing, Y-L., & Lindenberger, U. (2007). Within-person trial-to-trial variability precedes and predicts cognitive decline in old age: Longitudinal data from the Berlin aging study. Neuropsychologia, 45, 2827-2838.
Lövdén, M., Ghisletta, P., & Lindenberger, U. (2005). Social participation attenuates decline in perceptual speed in old and very old age. Psychology and Aging, 20, 423-434.
Lövdén, M., Bergman, L., Adolfsson, R., Lindenberger, U., & Nilsson, L-G. (2005). Studying individual aging in an interindividual context: Typical paths of age-related, dementia-related, and mortality-related cognitive development in old age. Psychology and Aging, 20, 303-316.