Research in the area of Psychology focuses on cognitive functioning in aging and how individual variability in age-related cognitive decline can be understood from the perspectives of brain aging, genetic background, and environmental factors.

Existing databases and ongoing data collections consist of several smaller and larger neuroimaging studies, often multimodal in nature. We also make use of largescale longitudinal databases, e.g. SNAC-K, which is carried out by ARC and Stockholm Gerontology Research Center.

The research groups consist of researchers at different levels, with expertise in e.g. neuropsychology, structural, functional, and molecular brain imaging.

There are three research groups withing the area of Psychology:

Erika Jonsson Laukka’s research group

• Erika Jonsson Laukka, Research group leader
• Ingrid Ekström, Postdoc
• Martin Fischer, Postdoc

Lars Bäckman’s research group

• Lars Bäckman, Professor, Resarch group leader
• Goran Papenberg, Researcher
• Jonas Persson, Researcher
• Marc Guitart-Masip, Researcher
• Alireza Salami, Researcher
• Saana Korkki, Postdoc
• Xin Li, Postdoc
• Kristin Nordin, Postdoc
• Bárbara Avelar Pereira, Research coordinator
• Tobias Granwald, PhD student

Grégoria Kalpouzos’ research group

• Farshad Falahati Asrami, Research engineer
• Jonatan Gustavsson, PhD student