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Overview

Martin Lövdén is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and has made contributions predominantly in the fields of neuroscience and medicine. Their research encompasses a variety of subfields including cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, as well as cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, which include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Motor Control and Adaptation

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Martin Lövdén include:

  • Education and Cognitive Functioning Across the Life Span (2020), published in Gothic.net
  • Tool use and language share syntactic processes and neural patterns in the basal ganglia (2021), published in Science
  • Timing of lifespan influences on brain and cognition (2023), published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Acute increases in brain-derived neurotrophic factor in plasma following physical exercise relates to subsequent learning in older adults (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • Immediate effects of a single session of physical exercise on cognition and cerebral blood flow: A randomized controlled study of older adults (2020), published in NeuroImage

Lövdén frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Lars Nyberg
  • Ulman Lindenberger
  • Benjamín Garzón
  • Jonna Nilsson
  • Katrine Riklund

The scientist has published repeatedly in venues such as Scientific Reports, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), NeuroImage, Cerebral Cortex, and Neurobiology of Aging. Scientific Reports features prominently with eight publications.

Best Publications

  • Memory aging and brain maintenance

    Lars Nyberg;Martin Lövdén;Martin Lövdén;Martin Lövdén;Katrine Riklund;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Education and Cognitive Functioning Across the Life Span.

    Martin Lövdén;Martin Lövdén;Laura Fratiglioni;M Maria Glymour;Ulman Lindenberger

  • A theoretical framework for the study of adult cognitive plasticity.

    Martin Lövdén;Lars Bäckman;Ulman Lindenberger;Sabine Schaefer

  • Hundred Days of Cognitive Training Enhance Broad Cognitive Abilities in Adulthood: Findings from the COGITO Study.

    Florian Schmiedek;Martin Lövdén;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Growth of language-related brain areas after foreign language learning

    Johan Mårtensson;Johan Eriksson;Nils Christian Bodammer;Magnus Lindgren

  • Structural brain plasticity in adult learning and development.

    Martin Lövdén;Elisabeth Wenger;Johan Mårtensson;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Vascular hippocampal plasticity after aerobic exercise in older adults

    A. Maass;Sandra Düzel;M. Goerke;A. Becke

  • Social participation attenuates decline in perceptual speed in old and very old age.

    Martin Lövdén;Paolo Ghisletta;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Finding the self by losing the self: Neural correlates of ego‐dissolution under psilocybin

    Alexander V. Lebedev;Alexander V. Lebedev;Martin Lövdén;Gidon Rosenthal;Amanda Feilding

  • Relationships of peripheral IGF-1, VEGF and BDNF levels to exercise-related changes in memory, hippocampal perfusion and volumes in older adults

    Anne Maass;Anne Maass;Sandra Düzel;Tanja Brigadski;Monique Goerke

  • Complex span versus updating tasks of working memory: the gap is not that deep.

    Florian Schmiedek;Andrea Hildebrandt;Martin Lövdén;Oliver Wilhelm

  • LSD-induced entropic brain activity predicts subsequent personality change.

    Alexander V. Lebedev;M. Kaelen;Martin Lövdén;Jonna Nilsson

  • Peak individual alpha frequency qualifies as a stable neurophysiological trait marker in healthy younger and older adults

    Thomas H. Grandy;Markus Werkle-Bergner;Christian Chicherio;Florian Schmiedek

  • Experience-dependent plasticity of white-matter microstructure extends into old age

    Martin Lövdén;Nils Christian Bodammer;Simone Kühn;Jörn Kaufmann

  • Spatial navigation training protects the hippocampus against age-related changes during early and late adulthood

    Martin Lövdén;Martin Lövdén;Martin Lövdén;Sabine Schaefer;Hannes Noack;Nils Christian Bodammer

  • Individual alpha peak frequency is related to latent factors of general cognitive abilities

    Thomas H. Grandy;Markus Werkle-Bergner;Christian Chicherio;Martin Lövdén

  • Cognitive plasticity in adulthood and old age: gauging the generality of cognitive intervention effects.

    Hannes Noack;Martin Lövdén;Florian Schmiedek;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Within-person trial-to-trial variability precedes and predicts cognitive decline in old and very old age: Longitudinal data from the Berlin Aging Study

    Martin Lövdén;Shu-Chen Li;Yee Lee Shing;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Does Activity Engagement Protect Against Cognitive Decline in Old Age? Methodological and Analytical Considerations

    Paolo Ghisletta;Jean-François Bickel;Martin Lövdén

  • Daily Variability in Working Memory is Coupled With Negative Affect: The Role of Attention and Motivation

    Annette Brose;Florian Schmiedek;Martin Lövdén;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Revisiting the dedifferentiation hypothesis with longitudinal multi-cohort data.

    Cindy M. de Frias;Martin Lövdén;Ulman Lindenberger;Lars Göran Nilsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulman Lindenberger
Ulman Lindenberger Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Florian Schmiedek
Florian Schmiedek Max Planck Society
Lars Bäckman
Lars Bäckman Karolinska Institute
Laura Fratiglioni
Laura Fratiglioni Karolinska Institute
Lars Nyberg
Lars Nyberg Umeå University
Emrah Düzel
Emrah Düzel German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Simone Kühn
Simone Kühn Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Hans-Jochen Heinze
Hans-Jochen Heinze Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Caroline Graff
Caroline Graff Karolinska University Hospital
Lars-Göran Nilsson
Lars-Göran Nilsson Stockholm University

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