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Berger, Natalie and Richards, Anne and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2019) Preserved proactive control in ageing: a Stroop Study with emotional faces vs. words. Frontiers in Psychology 10 , p. 1906. ISSN 1664-1078.

Berger, Natalie and Richards, Anne and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2019) Delayed reconfiguration of a non-emotional task set through reactivation of an emotional task set in task switching: an ageing study. Cognition and Emotion 33 (7), pp. 1370-1386. ISSN 1464-0600.

Cadar, Dorina and Usher, Marius and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2018) Age-related deficits in memory encoding and retrieval in word list free recall. Brain Sciences 8 (12), p. 211. ISSN 2076-3425.

Davelaar, Eddy J. and Eatough, Virginia and Etienne, Mervyn and Ozolins, C. (2018) Mid-frontal theta oscillations discriminate between sham-control and neurofeedback training manipulations: a signal detection analysis. Current Neurobiology 9 (3), pp. 95-100. ISSN 0975-9042.

Davelaar, Eddy J. and Barnby, Joseph and Almasi, Soma and Eatough, Virginia (2018) Differential subjective experiences in learners and non-learners in frontal alpha neurofeedback: piloting a mixed-method approach. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience , ISSN 1662-5161.

Berger, A. and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2018) Frontal alpha oscillations and attentional control: a virtual reality neurofeedback study. Neuroscience 378 , pp. 189-197. ISSN 0306-4522.

Berger, Natalie and Richards, Anne and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2018) Differential effects of angry faces on working memory updating in younger and older adults. Psychology and Aging 33 (4), pp. 667-673. ISSN 0882-7974.

Kalanthroff, E. and Davelaar, Eddy J. and Henik, A. and Goldfarb, L. and Usher, Marius (2018) Task conflict and proactive control: a computational theory of the Stroop task. Psychological Review 125 (1), pp. 59-82. ISSN 0033-295X.

Davelaar, Eddy J. (2017) A computational approach to developing cost-efficient adaptive-threshold algorithms for EEG neuro feedback. International Journal of Structural and Computational Biology 1 (2), pp. 1-4.

Hollamby, A. and Davelaar, Eddy J. and Cadar, Dorina (2017) Increased physical fitness is associated with higher executive functioning in people with dementia. Frontiers In Public Health 5 , p. 346. ISSN 2296-2565.

Berger, Natalie and Richards, Anne and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2017) Focusing on emotional faces improves working memory performance in older adults. Frontiers in Psychology 15 (8), p. 1565. ISSN 1664-1078.

Berger, Natalie and Richards, Anne and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2017) When emotions matter: focusing on emotion improves working memory updating in older adults. Frontiers in Psychology 8 , ISSN 1664-1078.

Davelaar, Eddy J. (2017) Mechanisms of neurofeedback: a computation-theoretic approach. Neuroscience 37 (3), e1293068. ISSN 0306-4522.

Marno, H. and Davelaar, Eddy J. and Csibra, Gergely (2016) An object memory bias induced by communicative reference. Acta Psychologica 163 , pp. 88-96. ISSN 0001-6918.

Davelaar, Eddy J. (2015) Semantic search in the remote associates test. Topics in Cognitive Science 7 (3), pp. 494-512. ISSN 1756-8757.

Kalanthroff, E. and Avnit, A. and Henik, A. and Davelaar, Eddy J. and Usher, Marius (2015) Stroop proactive control and task conflict are modulated by concurrent working memory load. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 22 (3), pp. 869-875. ISSN 1069-9384.

Dougherty, M.R. and Harbison, J.I. and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2014) Optional stopping and the termination of memory retrieval. Current Directions in Psychological Science 23 (5), pp. 332-337. ISSN 0963-7214.

Elhalal, Anat and Davelaar, Eddy J. and Usher, Marius (2014) The role of the frontal cortex in memory: an investigation of the Von Restorff effect. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8 , ISSN 1662-5161.

Marno, H. and Davelaar, Eddy J. and Csibra, Gergely (2014) Nonverbal communicative signals modulate attention to object properties. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 40 (2), pp. 752-762. ISSN 0096-1523.

Lange, Nicholas D. and Buttaccio, D.R. and Davelaar, Eddy J. and Thomas, R.P. (2014) Using the memory activation capture (MAC) procedure to investigate the temporal dynamics of hypothesis generation. Memory & Cognition 42 (2), pp. 264-274. ISSN 0090-502X.

Hussey, E.K. and Dougherty, M.R. and Harbison, J.I. and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2014) Retrieval dynamics in self-terminated memory search. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 67 (2), pp. 394-416. ISSN 1747-0218.

Lange, Nicholas D. and Davelaar, Eddy J. and Thomas, R.P. (2013) Data acquisition dynamics and hypothesis generation. Cognitive Systems Research 24 , pp. 9-17. ISSN 1389-0417.

Davelaar, Eddy J. and Yu, E.C. and Isaiah Harbison, J. and Hussey, E.K. and Dougherty, M.R. (2013) A rational approach to memory search termination. Cognitive Systems Research 24 , pp. 96-103. ISSN 1389-0417.

Lange, Nicholas D. and Thomas, R.P. and Buttaccio, D.R. and Illingworth, D.A. and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2013) Working memory dynamics bias the generation of beliefs: the influence of data presentation rate on hypothesis generation. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 20 (1), pp. 171-176. ISSN 1069-9384.

Davelaar, Eddy J. (2013) Short-term memory as a working memory control process. Frontiers in Psychology 4 , ISSN 1664-1078.

Davelaar, Eddy J. (2013) When the ignored gets bound: sequential effects in the flanker task. Frontiers in Psychology 3 , p. 552. ISSN 1664-1078.

Lange, Nicholas D. and Thomas, R.P. and Buttaccio, D.R. and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2012) Catching a glimpse of working memory: top-down capture as a tool for measuring the content of the mind. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 74 (8), pp. 1562-1567. ISSN 1943-3921.

Lange, Nicholas D. and Thomas, R.P. and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2012) Temporal dynamics of hypothesis generation: the influences of data serial order, data consistency, and elicitation timing. Frontiers in Psychology , ISSN 1664-1078.

Cooper, Richard P. and Wutke, Karolina and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2012) Differential contributions of set-shifting and monitoring to dual-task interference. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 65 (3), pp. 587-612. ISSN 1747-0218.

van Herwegen, J. and Rundblad, G. and Davelaar, Eddy J. and Annaz, Dagmara (2011) Variability and standardized test profiles in typically developing children and children with Williams Syndrome. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 29 (4), pp. 883-894. ISSN 0261-510X.

Davelaar, Eddy J. (2011) Processes versus representations: cognitive control as emergent, yet componential. Topics in Cognitive Science 3 (2), pp. 247-252. ISSN 1756-8765.

Davelaar, Eddy J. and Tian, X. and Weidemann, C.T. and Huber, D.E. (2011) A habituation account of change detection in same/different judgments. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience , ISSN 1530-7026.

Davelaar, Eddy J. (2010) Cognitive science – future challenges of an interdisciplinary field. Frontiers in Psychology 1 , pp. 1-2. ISSN 1664-1078.

Huber, D.E. and Tomlinson, T.D. and Rieth, C.A. and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2010) Reply to Bäuml and Hanslmayr: adding or subtracting memories? the neural correlates of learned interference vs. memory inhibition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107 (2), E4-E4. ISSN 0027-8424.

Tomlinson, T.D. and Huber, D.E. and Rieth, C.A. and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2009) An interference account of cue-independent forgetting in the no-think paradigm. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106 (37), pp. 15588-15593. ISSN 0027-8424.

Harbison, J.I. and Dougherty, M.R. and Davelaar, Eddy J. and Fayyad, B. (2009) On the lawfulness of the decision to terminate memory search. Cognition 111 (3), pp. 397-402. ISSN 0010-0277.

Davelaar, Eddy J. and Stevens, J. (2009) Sequential dependencies in the Eriksen flanker task: a direct comparison of two competing accounts. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 16 (1), pp. 121-126. ISSN 1069-9384.

Davelaar, Eddy J. and Usher, Marius and Haarmann, H.J. and Goshen-Gottstein, Y. (2008) Postscript: through TCM, STM shines bright. Psychological Review 115 (4), pp. 1116-1118. ISSN 0033-295X.

Usher, Marius and Davelaar, Eddy J. and Haarmann, H.J. and Goshen-Gottstein, Y. (2008) Short-term memory after all: comment on Sederberg, Howard, and Kahana (2008). Psychological Review 115 (4), pp. 1108-1116. ISSN 0033-295x.

Adam, J.J. and Davelaar, Eddy J. and van der Gouw, A. and Willems, P. (2008) Evidence for attentional processing in spatial localization. Psychological Research 72 (4), pp. 433-442. ISSN 0340-0727.

Davelaar, Eddy J. (2008) A computational study of conflict-monitoring at two levels of processing: reaction time distributional analyses and hemodynamic responses. Brain Research 1202 , pp. 109-119. ISSN 0006-8993.

Davelaar, Eddy J. (2007) Sequential retrieval and inhibition of parallel (re)activated representations: a neurocomputational comparison of competitive queuing and resampling models. Adaptive Behavior 15 (1), pp. 51-71. ISSN 1059-7123.

Davelaar, Eddy J. and Haarmann, H.J. and Goshen-Gottstein, Y. and Usher, Marius (2006) Semantic similarity dissociates shortfrom long-term recency effects: testing a neurocomputational model of list memory. Memory & Cognition 34 (2), pp. 323-334. ISSN 0090-502X.

Davelaar, Eddy J. and Goshen-Gottstein, Y. and Askenazi, A. and Haarmann, H.J. and Usher, Marius (2005) The demise of short-term memory revisited: empirical and computational investigations of recency effects. Psychological Review 12 (1), pp. 3-42. ISSN 0033-295X.

Haarmann, H.J. and Ashling, G.E. and Davelaar, Eddy J. and Usher, Marius (2005) Age-related declines in context maintenance and semantic short-term memory. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A 58 (1), pp. 34-53. ISSN 0272-4987.

Davelaar, Eddy J. and Goshen-Gottstein, Y. and Ashkenazi, A. and Haarmann, H.J. and Usher, Marius (2005) The demise of short-term memory revisited: empirical and computational investigations of recency effects. Psychological Review 112 (1), pp. 3-42. ISSN 0033-295X.

Haarmann, H.J. and Davelaar, Eddy J. and Usher, Marius (2003) Individual differences in semantic short-term memory capacity and reading comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language 48 (2), pp. 320-345. ISSN 0749-596X.

Usher, Marius and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2002) Neuromodulation of decision and response selection. Neural Networks 15 (4-6), pp. 635-645. ISSN 0893-6080.

Book Section

Langley, P. and Cooper, Richard P. (2017) Symposium on problem solving and goal-directed sequential activity. In: Gunzelmann, G. and Howes, A. and Tenbrink, T. and Davelaar, Eddy J. (eds.) Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, U.S.: Cognitive Science Society, pp. 29-30. ISBN 9780991196760.

Caso, A. and Cooper, Richard P. (2017) A model of cognitive control in the Wisconsin card sorting test: integrating schema theory and basal ganglia function. In: Gunzelmann, G. and Howes, A. and Tenbrink, T. and Davelaar, Eddy J. (eds.) Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. 2017: Cognitive Science Society.

Davelaar, Eddy J. (2017) Testing the specificity of EEG neurofeedback training on first- and second-order measures of attention. In: Schmorrow, D.D. and Fidopiastis, C.M. (eds.) Augmented Cognition. Neurocognition and Machine Learning. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 10284 10284. Springer, pp. 19-27. ISBN 9783319586274.

Guest, Olivia and Cooper, Richard P. and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2014) The influence of implementation on 'hub' models of semantic cognition. In: Mayor, J. and Gomez, P. (eds.) Computational Models of Cognitive Processes. Singapore: World Scientific, pp. 155-169. ISBN 9789814458832.

Davelaar, Eddy J. (2013) Sequential memory, computational perspectives. In: Pashler, H. (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Mind. London, UK: Sage. ISBN 9781412950572.

Davelaar, Eddy J. (2012) Attentional modulation of spread of activation. In: Seely, N.M. (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. London, UK: Springer, pp. 366-369. ISBN 9781441914279.

Davelaar, Eddy J. (2012) Computational investigations of cognitive impairment in Huntington's Disease. In: Tunali, N.E. (ed.) Huntington's disease: Core concepts and current advances. Rijeka, Croatia: In Tech, pp. 243-266. ISBN 9789533079530.

Davelaar, Eddy J. and Lange, Nicholas D. and Thomas, R.P. (2012) Data acquisition and hypothesis generation. In: Russwinkel, N. and Drewitz, U. and van Rijn, H. (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Cognitive Modelling. Berlin, Germany: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin, pp. 31-36. ISBN 9783798324084.

Davelaar, Eddy J. and Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (2012) Human memory search. In: Todd, P.M. and Hills, T. and Robbins, T. (eds.) Cognitive Search: Evolution, Algorithms, and the Brain. Strüngmann Forum Reports. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262018098.

Davelaar, Eddy J. and Harbison, J.I. and Yu, E.C. and Hussey, E.K. and Dougherty, M.R. (2012) Rational search of associative memory. In: Miyake, N. and Peebles, D. and Cooper, Richard P. (eds.) Proceedings of the 34th Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, Texas, USA: Cognitive Science Society. ISBN 9780976831884.

Pachur, T. and Raaijmakers, J.G.W. and Davelaar, Eddy J. and Daw, N.D. and Dougherty, M.R. and Hommel, B. and Lee, M.D. and Polyn, S.M. and Ridderinkhof, K.R. and Todd, P.M. and Wolfe, J.M. (2012) Unpacking cognitive search: mechanisms and processes. In: Todd, P.M. and Hills, T. and Robbins, T. (eds.) Cognitive Search: Evolution, Algorithms, and the Brain. Strüngmann Forum Reports. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262018098.

Thomas, Michael S.C. and Knowland, V.C.P. and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette (2012) Variability in the severity of developmental disorders: a neurocomputational account of developmental regression in autism. In: Davelaar, Eddy J. (ed.) Connectionist Models of Neurocognition and Emergent Behavior: From Theory to Applications. Progress in Neural Processing 20. Singapore: World Scientific, pp. 309-325. ISBN 9789814340359.

Davelaar, Eddy J. and Yu, E.C. and Harbison, J.I. and Hussey, E.K. and Dougherty, M.R. (2012) A rational analysis of memory search termination. In: Russwinkel, N. and Drewitz, U. and van Rijn, H. (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Cognitive Modelling. Berlin, Germany: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin, pp. 169-174. ISBN 9783798324084.

Davelaar, Eddy J. (2011) Introduction. In: Davelaar, Eddy J. (ed.) Connectionist Models Of Neurocognition And Emergent Behavior: From Theory To Applications - Proceedings Of The 12Th Neural Computation And Psychology Workshop (Progress in Neural Processing). Singapore: World Scientific, pp. 1-5. ISBN 9789814340342.

Cooper, Richard P. and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2011) Modelling correlations in 'response inhibition'. In: Davelaar, Eddy J. (ed.) Connectionist Models of Neurocognition and Emergent Behavior: From Theory to Applications. London, UK: World Scientific, pp. 245-258. ISBN 9789814340342.

Davelaar, Eddy J. (2011) Post-retrieval inhibition in sequential memory search. In: Seth, A.K. and Prescott, T.J. and Bryson, J.J. (eds.) Modelling natural action selection. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 144-168. ISBN 9781107000490.

Cooper, Richard P. and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2010) Modelling the correlation between two putative inhibition tasks: a simulation approach. In: Salvucci, D.D. and Gunzelmann, G. (eds.) Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Philadelphia, USA: Drexel University, pp. 31-36.

Althaus, Nadja and Mareschal, Denis (2010) Early language as multimodal learning. In: Davelaar, Eddy J. (ed.) Progress in Neural Processing: Volume 20. Connectionist Models of Neurocognition and Emergent Behavior From Theory to Applications (Proceedings of the 12th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop). London, UK: World Scientific, pp. 110-123. ISBN 9789814340342.

Davelaar, Eddy J. and Cooper, Richard P. (2010) Modelling the correlation between two putative inhibition tasks: an analytic approach. In: Ohlsson, S. and Catrambone, R. (eds.) Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Portland, USA: Cognitive Science Society Incorporated, pp. 937-942. ISBN 9780976831860.

Usher, Marius and Davelaar, Eddy J. and Bertelle, A.S. and Seevarajah, S. (2009) Context and semantic working memory in schizophrenia: a computational and experimental investigation. In: Mayor, J. and Ruh, N. and Plunkett, K. (eds.) Connectionist Models of Behaviour and Cognition II. Progress in Neural Processing 18. Singapore: World Scientific, pp. 91-102. ISBN 9789812834225.

Davelaar, Eddy J. (2009) Conflict-monitoring and (meta)cognitive control. In: Mayor, J. and Ruh, N. and Plunkett, K. (eds.) Connectionist models of behaviour and cognition II. Proceedings of the 11th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop. Singapore: WorldScientific, pp. 91-102. ISBN 9789812834225.

Cox, G. and Harbison, J.I. and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2008) From list learning to semantic knowledge: search and learning of associative memory. In: Love, B.C. and McRae, K. and Sloutsky, V.M. (eds.) Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, Texas, USA: Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2344-2349. ISBN 9780976831846.

Davelaar, Eddy J. (2008) On the origin of false memories: at encoding or at retrieval? - a contextual retrieval analysis. In: French, R.M. and Thomas, E. (eds.) From associations to rules: connectionist models of behavior and cognition. Proceedings of the 10th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop. Singapore: World Scientific, pp. 28-40. ISBN 9789812797315.

Harbison, J.I. and Davelaar, Eddy J. and Dougherty, M.R. (2008) Stopping rules and memory search termination decisions. In: Love, B.C. and McRae, K. and Sloutsky, V.M. (eds.) Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, Texas, USA: Cognitive Science Society, pp. 565-570. ISBN 9780976831846.

Davelaar, Eddy J. and Huber, D.E. (2007) A perceptual adaptation account of preview effect in the Eriksen flanker task. In: Vosniadou, S. and Kayser, D. and Protopapas, A. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd European Cognitive Science Conference. Delphi: Cognitive Science Society, p. 907. ISBN 9781841696966.

Tian, X. and Davelaar, Eddy J. and Huber, D.E. (2006) Behavioral and electrophysiological tests of a perceptual account of negative priming. In: Sun, R. and Miyake, N. (eds.) Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Vancouver, Canada: Cognitive Science Society, p. 2617. ISBN 9781605605005.

Davelaar, Eddy J. and Huber, D.E. (2006) Preview benefits and deficits in visual selective attention. In: Sun, R. and Miyake, N. (eds.) Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Vancouver, Canada: Cognitive Science Society, p. 2467. ISBN 9780805862966.

Davelaar, Eddy J. (2005) Semantic inhibition due to short-term retention of prime words: the prime-retention effect and a controlled center-surround hypothesis. In: Forbus, K. and Gentner, D. and Reiger, T. (eds.) Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Chicago, USA: Cognitive Science Society, pp. 268-273. ISBN 0805854649.

Davelaar, Eddy J. and Hannon, E.M. and Richards, A. (2005) Strategy use in the operation span task. In: Bara, B.G. and Bucciarelli, M. and Barsalou, L. (eds.) Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Stresa, Italy: Cognitive Science Society, p. 2464. ISBN 0976831813.

Davelaar, Eddy J. (2005) A neurocognitive theory of attentional modulation of spread of activation. In: Cangelosi, A. and Bugmann, G. and Borisyuk, R. (eds.) Modeling Language, Cognition, and Action: Proceedings of the 9th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop. Singapore: WorldScientific, pp. 217-226. ISBN 9789812563248.

Davelaar, Eddy J. (2004) Towards a model of the prime-retention effect. In: Forbus, K. and Gentner, D. and Reiger, T. (eds.) Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Chicago, USA: Cognitive Science Society, p. 1549. ISBN 0805854649.

Davelaar, Eddy J. and Usher, Marius (2004) An extended buffer model for active maintenance and selective updating. In: Bowman, H. and Labiouse, C. (eds.) Connectionist Models of Cognition and Perception II. Proceedings of the 8th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop. Singapore: WorldScientific, pp. 3-14. ISBN 9789814482936.

Davelaar, Eddy J. and Usher, Marius (2004) A neurocomputational account of short- and long-term recency effects. In: Alterman, R. and Kirsh, D. (eds.) Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Boston, USA: Cognitive Science Society, pp. 288-293. ISBN 9780805849912.

Davelaar, Eddy J. and Usher, Marius (2003) Modeling dissociations in short- and long-term recency effects. In: Detje, F. and Dörner, D. and Schaub, H. (eds.) The logic of cognitive systems. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Bamberg, Germany: Universitäts-Verlag, pp. 241-242. ISBN 9783933463159.

Davelaar, Eddy J. and Usher, Marius (2003) Semantic clustering in free recall: evidence for a semantic buffer? In: Detje, F. and Dörner, D. and Schaub, H. (eds.) The logic of cognitive systems: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Bamberg, Germany: Universitäts-Verlag, pp. 239-240. ISBN 9783933463159.

Davelaar, Eddy J. and Usher, Marius (2002) An activation-based theory of immediate item memory. In: Bullinaria, J.A. and Lowe, W. (eds.) Connectionist Models of Cognition and Perception: Proceedings of the 7th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop. Singapore: WorldScientific, pp. 118-130. ISBN 9789812380371.

Conference or Workshop Item

Pettitt, T. and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2010) False recognition in the DRM-paradigm reflects false encoding. In: 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 11-14 August, 2010, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Davelaar, Eddy J. (2010) An analysis of the working memory capacity paradox. In: The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Cognition in Flux, 11-14 August, 2010, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Thesis

Rizzo, Isabella (2023) Physical function and cognitive decline in the older population: an investigation on prospective associations and measurement challenges. [Thesis] (Unpublished)