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A comprehensive study of cognitive control in healthy aging - Communications Medicine De Pue et al. administer a cognitive control test battery measuring inhibition, updating, shifting, and proactive and reactive control in young and older adults. While some cognitive control functions decline with age, others are spared or even improve, highlighting the importance of distinguishing multiple cognitive control functions.

🚨 NEW RESEARCH! ⚕️ 🩺

De Pue et al. find differences in cognitive control with healthy aging.

http://dlvr.it/TQMjtf

#HealthyAging
@sarahdepue.bsky.social
@evdbussc.bsky.social
@neuropsylab.bsky.social

@cogtex.bsky.social, @neuropsylab.bsky.social, @leuvenbrainins.bsky.social

#cognitivecontrol #executivefunctions #factorstructure #openscience

This project has been quite a journey, starting at the beginning of my PhD six years ago.
A big thank you to our co-authors Bart Aben, Kirsten Verhaegen, Anne-Merel Meijer, Céline Gillebert and @evdbussc.bsky.social, as well as all students and colleagues who contributed along the way.

🕵️‍♀️The correlated three-factor structure received the strongest support.
But I'm especially proud of the full transparency and the open science approach 🪟. With this, we want to offer a nuanced and critical perspective on commonly used cognitive control tasks and ongoing debates in the field.

Happy to share that our shared first-author paper with @febedemeyer.bsky.social is now published open access in @jcgntn.bsky.social
🔗 bit.ly/4bt2D8Q

We developed and administered an open-source cognitive control test battery with often used tasks (bit.ly/4ql9gyP) in 247 students. Key insights in 🧵

This Thursday, we celebrated Christmas together and had lots of fun doing an escape room !🎄🧩

👀 Stay tuned for our longitudinal follow-up, where we'll explore cognitive control development along with protective and risk factors in a subset of this older adult sample. 🧵(4/4)

#cognitivecontrol #aging #cognitiveaging #executivefunctions

🙏 Huge thanks to co-authors Hans Stuyck, Céline Gillebert @neuropsylab.bsky.social, Eva Dierckx & @evdbussc.bsky.social @cogtex.bsky.social, our participants, and the amazing team of students who made this possible! 🧵(3/4)

What we found:
Not all is bad with older age! 🧓
While updating and shifting declined across age groups, proactive control remained spared. Remarkably, inhibition even improved in older adults.

Considering multiple cognitive control components when studying cognitive aging seems crucial! 🧵(2/4)

A comprehensive study of cognitive control in healthy aging - Communications Medicine De Pue et al. administer a cognitive control test battery measuring inhibition, updating, shifting, and proactive and reactive control in young and older adults. While some cognitive control functions...

📢 New Publication Alert!
Our study on cognitive control in healthy aging is finally out (for early access) in Communications Medicine bit.ly/48tkF9g

We administered a comprehensive cognitive control test battery in 231 older adults (different cohorts) and 75 young adults 🧠

Key insights in 🧵(1/4)

Proud to see our very own @evdbussc.bsky.social shine as chair of the society this year! ✨ On a more personal note, I felt very grateful for the Travel Award I received from the society, together with other early career researchers, for my PhD research and talk on cognitive control in aging. 🧠 (2/2)

Last week our lab attended the annual meeting of the @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social in Denver on Peak Cognition. 🏔️ I enjoyed the inspiring talks and posters, connecting, and spending time with the lab while also visiting the beautiful surroundings of Denver. (1/2)

We are at #psynom25! Come and attend the posters and talks of my wonderful @cogtex.bsky.social lab members @febedemeyer.bsky.social, @sarahdepue.bsky.social, @alessandromazza.bsky.social, @mengjiaoge.bsky.social and @aleksfadeev.bsky.social. @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social

The #PSYNOM25 Mobile App is now available, allowing you to view the program and search by day, topic, or author to create your personalized schedule and abstract book. Connect with attendees through in-app messaging, receive notifications, view the exhibitor list, & much more!
buff.ly/doTVaSx

Our @cogtex.bsky.social lab is finally on Bluesky! ✨ Give us a follow and stay tuned for more updates on our lab's activities and our research on all things cognitive control 👀🧠

Awards — Women in Cognitive Science

If you are planning to attend the next @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social Annual Meeting in Denver (20-23 November) don’t miss the chance to apply for the Junior Research Networking Awards

🗓️ Deadline: September 15, 2025
www.womenincogsci.org/awards

Feeling very grateful to receive this award from the @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social. Perfect way to conclude my PhD journey and celebrate and share my work on cognitive control in aging 🙏 Massive thanks as well to my supervisors @evdbussc.bsky.social, Céline @neuropsylab.bsky.social and Eva Dierckx

We moved our symposium to a bigger room so we have a few more extra seats available now! Join us September 10th for our symosium on "Flexible Definitions of Cognitive Flexibility"
shengjiexu.ugent.be/CoCoFlex_Sem.... Poster or talk submission deadline is in two weeks: July 31st!

Back home from the beautiful city of Pavia. Really enjoyed again this wonderful cognitive aging conference! Kudos to the organizing team, also for the junior social activity! (I promise I was more excited than on the picture!) #EUCAS2025

Come find me at #psynom24 on Saturday evening to talk about cognitive control in aging!