Annalise LaPlume
Assistant Professor
BSc (Nottingham), MA, PhD (York), Postdocs (University of Toronto, McGill)
Email: annaliselaplume@trentu.ca
Website: www.annaliselaplume.ca
Office: B 101.4
Research interests
My expertise is in Quantitative Methods and Lifespan Cognitive Psychology. I use statistical models and large-scale datasets to study how and why cognition changes over life. My research explores:
- Quantitative techniques to model the dynamic process of cognitive aging (e.g. changepoint regression, factor analysis, and response variability)
- Quantitative techniques to process, analyze, and visualize very large-scale internet-based datasets
- Lifespan trajectories of complex cognitive abilities (e.g. event memory, executive functions, attention)
- Individual resilience factors for healthy aging and a lower likelihood of developing dementia (e.g. biological sex, exercise, education)
Select publications
LaPlume, A. A., Anderson, N. D., McKetton, L., Levine, B., & Troyer, A. (2022). When I’m 64: Effects of age on memory and attention in over 40,000 online participants. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 77(1), 104-117. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab143
LaPlume, A. A., McKetton, L., Levine, B., Troyer, A., & Anderson, N. D. (2022). The adverse effect of modifiable dementia risk factors on cognition amplify across the adult lifespan. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 14(1), e12337. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/j9cge
LaPlume, A. A. (2022). Challenges and solutions for data analysis in an adult lifespan study of over 100,000 online cognitive test completions. SAGE Research Methods: Cases. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529600865