Lifespan Cognitive Dynamics

In the Lifespan Cognitive Dynamics Lab we are interested how, and why, cognitive abilities change across the lifespan, and how brain systems underlie these changes. To study these questions we use a range of multivariate methods in large samples to examine how cognitive abilities affect each other, how brain structure and function supports changes in cognitive abilities, and how cognitive functioning interfaces with lifestyle factors such as physical and mental health, social and intellectual engagement and environmental factors.

Department of Cognitive Neuroscience
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Trigon building, Route 204
Kapittelweg 29
6525 EN Nijmegen
The Netherlands

• McCormick, E. M., & Kievit, R. A. (2023). Poorer white matter microstructure predicts slower and more variable reaction time performance: evidence for a neural noise hypothesis in a large lifespan cohort. Journal of Neuroscience.

• Deserno, M. K., Fuhrmann, D., Begeer, S., Borsboom, D., Geurts, H. M., & Kievit, R. A. (2023). Longitudinal development of language and fine motor skills is correlated, but not coupled, in a childhood atypical cohort. Autism, 27(1), 133-144.

• Orben, A., Przybylski, A. K., Blakemore, S. J., & Kievit, R. A. (2022). Windows of developmental sensitivity to social media. Nature Communications, 13(1), 1649.

• Fuhrmann, D., Madsen, K. S., Johansen, L. B., Baaré, W. F., & Kievit, R. A. (2022). The midpoint of cortical thinning between late childhood and early adulthood differs across individuals and regions: Evidence from longitudinal modelling in a 12-wave sample. NeuroImage.

• Fuhrmann, D., Simpson-Kent, I. L., Bathelt, J., & Kievit, R. A. (2020). The neurocognitive architecture of fluid ability in children and adolescents. Cerebral Cortex.

• Kievit, R. A. (2021). Sensitive periods in cognitive development: A mutualistic perspective. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.

• Malpetti, M., Jones, P. S., Tsvetanov, K. A., Rittman, T., van Swieten, J. C., Borroni, B., ... & Kievit, R. A*., & Rowe, J.*  (2020). Apathy in presymptomatic genetic frontotemporal dementia predicts cognitive decline and is driven by structural brain changes. Alzheimer's & Dementia.

• Kievit, R. A., Hofman, A. D., & Nation, K. (2019). Mutualistic Coupling Between Vocabulary and Reasoning in Young Children: A Replication and Extension of the Study by Kievit et al. (2017). Psychological Science, 0956797619841265.

• Kievit, R. A., Brandmaier, A., Ziegler, G., van Harmelen, A. L., de Mooij, S., Moutoussis, M., … & Lindenberger, U. (2018). Developmental cognitive neuroscience using Latent Change Scoremodels: A tutorial and applications. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience