Ulman Lindenberger

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Ulman Lindenberger (born February 8, 1961 in Heidelberg ) is a German psychologist in the field of developmental psychology and cognitive aging research .

After graduating from high school in 1979 at the Arndt Gymnasium in Dahlem , Lindenberger studied from 1980 to 1981 at the University of California, Berkeley . From 1982 to 1985 he studied psychology at the Technical University of Berlin , from 1986 to 1994 biology at the Free University of Berlin , in 1990 he was awarded a Dr. phil. in psychology with Paul B. Baltes at the Free University of Berlin, the habilitation in psychology took place in 1998 also at the Free University of Berlin. 1999–2003 he was a professor at Saarland University . Ulman Lindenberger has been Director of the Developmental Psychology Research Department at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin since 2003 . Since 2004 he has been honorary professor at the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin . Since 2014 he has headed the Max Planck UCL Center for Computational Psychiatry and Aging Research together with Ray Dolan , Director of the Wellcome Trust Center for Neuroimaging at University College London . 2015–2016 he was Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute , Fiesole, Italy.

Lindenberger's research area is the psychology of the life span. He is particularly interested in the neural and behavioral plasticity of the lifespan, relationships between behavior and the brain over the lifespan, multivariate methods of development research and formal models of behavioral development. His work is primarily about the potential and limits of cognitive aging. Lindenberger combines approaches from neuroscience , gerontology and developmental psychology . Lindenberger's research shows that mental performance (or cognition ) is not determined by age, but can be improved through personal action.

For this he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the DFG in 2010 . In 2006 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina , in 2014 he became a member of the Academia Europaea .

Lindenberger is married and has two children.

Fonts (selection)

  • AM Brandmaier, T. von Oertzen, P. Ghisletta, C. Hertzog, U. Lindenberger: LIFESPAN: A tool for the computer-aided design of longitudinal studies. In: Frontiers in Psychology. Vol. 6, 2015, Art. 272. doi: 10.3389 / fpsyg.2015.00272
  • DD Garrett, IE Nagel, C. Preuschhof, AZ Burzynska, J. Marchner, S. Wiegert, GJ Jungehülsing, L. Nyberg, A. Villringer, S.-C. Li, HR Heekeren, L. Bäckman, U. Lindenberger: Amphetamine modulates brain signal variability and working memory in younger and older adults. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol. 112, 2015, pp. 7593-7598. doi: 10.1073 / pnas.1504090112
  • D. Gerstorf, G. Hülür, J. Drewelies, P. Eibich, S. Duezel, I. Demuth, P. Ghisletta, E. Steinhagen-Thiessen, GG Wagner, U. Lindenberger: Secular changes in late-life cognition and well -being: Towards a long bright future with a short brisk ending? In: Psychology and Aging. Vol. 30, 2015, pp. 301-310. doi: 10.1037 / pag0000016
  • U. Lindenberger: Human cognitive aging: Corriger la fortune? In: Science. Vol. 346, Iss. 6209, 2014, pp. 572-578. doi: 10.1126 / science.1254403
  • U. Lindenberger, U. Mayr: Cognitive aging: Is there a dark side to environmental support? In: Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Vol. 18, 2014, pp. 7-15. doi: 10.1016 / j.tics.2013.10.006
  • MC Voelkle, A. Brose, F. Schmiedek, U. Lindenberger: Toward a unified framework for the study of between-person and within-person structures: Building a bridge between two research paradigms. In: Multivariate Behavioral Research. Vol. 49, 2014, pp. 193-213. doi: 10.1080 / 00273171.2014.889593 (PDF)
  • J. Freund, AM Brandmaier, L. Lewejohann, I. Kirste, M. Kritzler, A. Krüger, N. Sachser, U. Lindenberger, G. Kempermann: Emergence of individuality in genetically identical mice. In: Science. Vol. 340, Iss. 6133, 2013, pp. 756-759. doi: 10.1126 / science.1235294 (PDF)
  • M. Lövdén, S. Schaefer, H. Noack, NC Bodammer, S. Kühn, H.-J. Heinze, E. Düzel, L. Bäckman, U. Lindenberger: Spatial navigation training protects the hippocampus against age-related changes during early and late adulthood. In: Neurobiology of Aging. Vol. 33, 2012, pp. 620.e629-620.e622. doi: 10.1016 / j.neurobiolaging.2011.02.013 (PDF)
  • U. Lindenberger, T. von Oertzen, P. Ghisletta, C. Hertzog: Cross-sectional age variance extraction: What's change got to do with it? In: Psychology and Aging. Vol. 26, 2011, pp. 34-47. doi: 10.1037 / a0020525 (PDF)
  • U. Lindenberger, J. Smith, KU Mayer, PB Baltes (Hrsg.): The Berlin Age Study. 3. Edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-05-004508-5 .
  • M. Lövdén, L. Bäckman, U. Lindenberger, S. Schaefer, F. Schmiedek: A theoretical framework for the study of adult cognitive plasticity. In: Psychological Bulletin. Vol. 136, 2010, pp. 659-676. doi: 10.1037 / a0020080 (PDF)
  • V. Müller, W. Gruber, W. Klimesch, U. Lindenberger: Lifespan differences in cortical dynamics of auditory perception. In: Developmental Science. Vol. 12, 2009, pp. 839-853. doi: 10.1111 / j.1467-7687.2009.00834.x (PDF)
  • U. Lindenberger, IE Nagel, C. Chicherio, S.-C. Li, HR Heekeren, L. Bäckman: Age-related decline in brain resources modulates genetic effects on cognitive functioning. In: Frontiers in Neuroscience. Vol. 2, 2008, pp. 234-244. doi: 10.3389 / neuro.01.039.2008
  • PB Baltes, U. Lindenberger, UM Staudinger: Life span theory in developmental psychology. In: W. Damon, RM Lerner (Ed.): Handbook of Child Psychology: Vol 1. Theoretical Models of Human Development. 6th edition. Wiley 2006, New York, pp. 569-664. (PDF)
  • N. Raz, U. Lindenberger, KM Rodrigue, KM Kennedy, D. Head, A. Williamson, C. Dahle, D. Gerstorf, JD Acker: Regional brain changes in aging healthy adults: General trends, individual differences and modifiers. In: Cerebral Cortex. Vol. 15, 2005, pp. 1676-1689. doi: 10.1093 / cercor / bhi044 (PDF)
  • U. Lindenberger, T. Singer, PB Baltes: Longitudinal selectivity in aging populations: Separating mortality-associated versus experimental components in the Berlin Aging Study (BASE). In: Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences. Vol. 57B, 2002, pp. P474-P482. doi: 10.1093 / geronb / 57.6.P474 (PDF)
  • U. Lindenberger, M. Marsiske, PB Baltes: Memorizing while walking: Increase in dual-task costs from young adulthood to old age. In: Psychology and Aging. Vol. 15, 2000, pp. 417-436. doi: 10.1037 / 0882-7974.15.3.417 (PDF)
  • M. Chapman, U. Lindenberger: Transitivity judgments, memory for premises, and models of children's reasoning. In: Developmental Review. Vol. 12, 1992, pp. 124-163. doi: 10.1016 / 0273-2297 (92) 90006-N PDF

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Max Planck UCL Center for Computational Psychiatry and Aging Research
  2. ↑ Fernand Braudel Senior Fellows 2015–16 at the European University Institute ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eui.eu
  3. ↑ DFG press release
  4. ↑ Member entry of Ulman Lindenberger (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 17, 2016.


personal data
SURNAME Lindenberger, Ulman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg