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Agneta Herlitz

Agneta Herlitz

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Psychology

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52
Citations
10311
World Ranking
5009
National Ranking
43

Overview

Agneta Herlitz is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Their research spans across the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a particular focus on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Clinical Psychology, and Molecular Biology.

Their work addresses several main topics, including cognitive abilities and testing, sexual differentiation and disorders, hormonal and reproductive studies, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, stuttering research and treatment, phonetics and phonology research, and language development and disorders.

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Agneta Herlitz include:

  • A Systematic Review and New Analyses of the Gender-Equality Paradox (2024), published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Biological and environmental predictors of heterogeneity in neurocognitive ageing (2020), published in Ageing Research Reviews
  • Consensus Parameter: Research Methodologies to Evaluate Neurodevelopmental Effects of Pubertal Suppression in Transgender Youth (2020), published in Transgender Health
  • The Efficacy of Parent Management Training With or Without Involving the Child in the Treatment Among Children with Clinical Levels of Disruptive Behavior: A Meta-analysis (2022), published in Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • Sex Differences in Episodic Memory Variance (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Agneta Herlitz include:

  • Martin Asperholm
  • Anna Strandqvist
  • Henrik Falhammar
  • Angelica Lindén Hirschberg
  • Anna Nordenström

Among the publication venues where Agneta Herlitz frequently publishes are:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Hormones and Behavior
  • Ageing Research Reviews
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Child Psychiatry & Human Development

Best Publications

  • Gender differences in episodic memory

    Agneta Herlitz;Lars-Göran Nilsson;Lars Bäckman;Lars Bäckman

  • Very Old Women at Highest Risk of Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease Incidence Data from the Kungsholmen Project, Stockholm

    L. Fratiglioni;M. Viitanen;E. von Strauss;V. Tontodonati

  • Sex differences in face recognition--women's faces make the difference.

    Catharina Lewin;Agneta Herlitz;Agneta Herlitz

  • Sex differences favoring women in verbal but not in visuospatial episodic memory.

    Catharina Lewin;Gerhard Wolgers;Agneta Herlitz

  • Sex Differences in Episodic Memory

    Agneta Herlitz;Jenny Rehnman

  • Nerve growth factor affects 11C-nicotine binding, blood flow, EEG, and verbal episodic memory in an Alzheimer patient (case report).

    L. Olson;A. Nordberg;H. von Holst;L. Bäckman

  • Sex differences and the own-gender bias in face recognition: A meta-analytic review

    Agneta Herlitz;Johanna Lovén

  • Sex differences in episodic memory: The impact of verbal and visuospatial ability.

    Agneta Herlitz;Eija Airaksinen;Eva Nordström

  • Sex differences in cognition are stable over a 10-year period in adulthood and old age.

    Cindy M. de Frias;Lars-Göran Nilsson;Agneta Herlitz

  • Cognitive predictors of incident Alzheimer's disease: a prospective longitudinal study.

    Brent J. Small;Agneta Herlitz;Laura Fratiglioni;Ove Almkvist

  • Women remember more faces than men do.

    Jenny Rehnman;Agneta Herlitz

  • The association between endogenous free testosterone and cognitive performance: a population-based study in 35 to 90 year-old men and women.

    Petra P. Thilers;Stuart W.S. MacDonald;Agneta Herlitz

  • What did you do yesterday? A meta-analysis of sex differences in episodic memory.

    Martin Asperholm;Nadja Högman;Jonas Rafi;Agneta Herlitz

  • Sex Differences in Episodic Memory: The Influence of Intelligence

    Agneta Herlitz;Julie E. Yonker

  • Sex differences in episodic memory: minimal influence of estradiol.

    Julie E Yonker;Elias Eriksson;Lars Göran Nilsson;Agneta Herlitz;Agneta Herlitz

  • Intracranial infusion of purified nerve growth factor to an Alzheimer patient: the first attempt of a possible future treatment strategy.

    Åke Seiger;Agneta Nordberg;Hans von Holst;Lars Bäckman

  • Life satisfaction among the very old: a survey on a cognitively intact sample aged 90 years or above.

    Pernilla K. Hillerås;Anthony F. Jorm;Agneta Herlitz;Bengt Winblad

  • Women's own-gender bias in face recognition memory.

    Johanna Lovén;Agneta Herlitz;Jenny Rehnman

  • Higher face recognition ability in girls: Magnified by own-sex and own-ethnicity bias

    Jenny Rehnman;Agneta Herlitz

  • A Life-Course Study of Cognitive Reserve in Dementia—From Childhood to Old Age

    Serhiy Dekhtyar;Hui-Xin Wang;Kirk Scott;Anna Goodman

  • Selective sex differences in declarative memory.

    Scott B. Maitland;Agneta Herlitz;Lars Nyberg;Lars Bäckman

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Bäckman
Lars Bäckman Karolinska Institute
Laura Fratiglioni
Laura Fratiglioni Karolinska Institute
Lars-Göran Nilsson
Lars-Göran Nilsson Stockholm University
Brent J. Small
Brent J. Small University of South Florida
Stuart W. S. MacDonald
Stuart W. S. MacDonald University of Victoria
Anthony F. Jorm
Anthony F. Jorm University of Melbourne
Martin Lövdén
Martin Lövdén University of Gothenburg
Åke Wahlin
Åke Wahlin Jönköping University
Elias Eriksson
Elias Eriksson University of Gothenburg
Håkan Fischer
Håkan Fischer Stockholm University

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