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Meet the Authors: A Neuropsychology Podcast

Society for Clinical Neuropsychology (SCN)
Everyday Functioning
Memory
Cannabis
Neurocognition
Traumatic Brain Injury
Cognitive Flexibility
Cognitive Reserve
Processing Speed
Homelessness
Residential Segregation
Locus Of Control
Parkinson's Disease
Metacognition
Psychological Inflexibility
Subjective Cognition
Objective Cognition
Memory Impairment
ACT (acceptance and Commitment Therapy)
Domain Specific Changes In Everyday Cognition
Multiple Sclerosis

We are pleased to introduce the Meet the Authors podcast series, brought to you by a collaboration of the Society for Clinical Neuropsychology (SCN) and the journal Neuropsychology. In this podcast series, a SCN student leader, with support from members of the SCN Scientific Advisory Committee and podcast host Dr. Scott Sperling, will discuss a recently published study with the authors who underto... more

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In this episode, host Dr. Scott Sperling and student leader Steven Harris meet with authors Nishaat Mukadam and Dr. Alice Cronin-Golomb to discuss their recent paper, Subjective Cognitive Concerns and Global Metacognitive Bias in Prodromal Parkinson'... more

In this episode, host Dr. Scott Sperling and student leader Jared Jacoboson Cherry meet with author Dr. Michael Culbertson to discuss his recent paper, Obtaining Comparable Measurement of Midlife Cognitive Functioning from Disparate Cognitive Tasks. ... more

In this episode, student leader Steven Harris meets with authors Dr. Alexandra Clark and Abbey Hamlin to discuss their recent paper, Locus of Control Moderates the Effects of Residential Segregation on Everyday Functioning in Black Older Adults From ... more

In this episode, our host, Dr. Scott Sperling, and student leader, Jared Jacoboson Cherry, meet with authors Dr. Kristina Gicas and Michelle Blumberg to discuss their recent paper, Examination of Objective and Subjective Cognition and Their Associati... more

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Nishaat Mukadam
Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology and neuropsychology doctoral resident
VU University Amsterdam; University of Rochester Medical Center
Episode: Subjective Cognitive Concerns and Global Metacognitive Bias in Prodromal Parkinson's and Parkinson's Disease without Cognitive Impairment
Alice Cronin-Golomb
Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Boston University
Episode: Subjective Cognitive Concerns and Global Metacognitive Bias in Prodromal Parkinson's and Parkinson's Disease without Cognitive Impairment
Michael Culbertson
Lead research scientist for education studies for healthy aging research
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Episode: Obtaining comparable measurement of midlife cognitive functioning from disparate cognitive tasks
Abbey Hamlin
PhD student in Clinical Psychology
University of Texas at Austin
Episode: Locus of control moderates the effects of residential segregation on everyday functioning in Black older adults from the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly study
Alexandra L. Clark
Clinical Neuropsychologist and Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Austin
Episode: Locus of control moderates the effects of residential segregation on everyday functioning in Black older adults from the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly study
Dr. Kristina Gicas
Author discussing homelessness and neuropsychology
University of the Fraser Valley
Episode: Examination of Objective and Subjective Cognition and Their Association With Functional Outcomes: A Cross - Sectional Study in a Canadian Sample of Homeless and Precariously Housed Adults
Michelle Blumberg
Author discussing cognition and daily functioning
York University
Episode: Examination of Objective and Subjective Cognition and Their Association With Functional Outcomes: A Cross - Sectional Study in a Canadian Sample of Homeless and Precariously Housed Adults
Roee Holtzer
Professor and Co-Author of the study
Yeshiva University / Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Episode: Mediating Effect of Cognitive Reserve on Associations Between Processing Speed and Memory in Older Adults with and without Multiple Sclerosis
Andrew Fox
PhD candidate and Co-Author of the study
Furman Graduate School of Psychology / Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Episode: Mediating Effect of Cognitive Reserve on Associations Between Processing Speed and Memory in Older Adults with and without Multiple Sclerosis

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Scott Sperling
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Subjective Cognitive Concerns and Global Metacognitive Bias in Prodromal Parkinson's and Parkinson's Disease without Cognitive Impairment
Q: What are the potential clinical implications of your finding that depression and anxiety predict negative metacognitive bias in Parkinson's and prodromal Parkinson's?
These neuropsychiatric factors are potentially modifiable with treatments, so addressing depression and anxiety could stabilize or improve subjective cognition, potentially enhancing daily functioning and quality of life for patients.
Subjective Cognitive Concerns and Global Metacognitive Bias in Prodromal Parkinson's and Parkinson's Disease without Cognitive Impairment
Q: Could you briefly explain the difference between metacognitive sensitivity and metacognitive bias and why this distinction matters for understanding subjective cognitive concerns?
Metacognitive sensitivity measures how well someone can distinguish correct from incorrect judgments, informing how accurately they gauge their own performance, while metacognitive bias looks at the direction and magnitude of the gap between self-report and actual performance; together they help explain why someone might feel cognitively impaired even when objective tests don't show deficits.
Obtaining comparable measurement of midlife cognitive functioning from disparate cognitive tasks
Q: What is your central takeaway for practitioners, and what resources would you recommend to learn more about these concepts?
The central message is that rigorous measurement using modern psychometric techniques can significantly enhance research quality; collaborate with measurement experts and consult introductory and Bayesian texts such as Ayala's book on IRT and Statistical Rethinking for intuition on latent-variable modeling.
Obtaining comparable measurement of midlife cognitive functioning from disparate cognitive tasks
Q: What is the role of covariates in your linking design, and how do they improve the robustness of the general cognition factor?
Covariates describe how subgroups differ across modes; by incorporating many covariates, the linking model better accounts for systematic differences and reduces risk of bias from unmeasured variables, improving alignment of the latent construct.
Obtaining comparable measurement of midlife cognitive functioning from disparate cognitive tasks
Q: Could you briefly describe why having two different response modes (phone and web) poses a problem for cognitive measurement?
Different tasks are more easily administered in one mode than the other, leading to non-equivalent measurements. The solution is to model and align the underlying constructs across modes rather than treating the observed scores as directly comparable.

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This show features in-depth conversations with authors and researchers who led neuropsychology studies, often centered on cognitive aging, dementia, brain injury, and related cognitive assessment methods. Episodes typically unpack study rationale, methodological choices, and the clinical or real-world implications of findings, with a clinician-host guiding the discussion and a student interviewer helping surface key concepts. Across recent episodes, listeners get practical insights into cognitive reserve, everyday cognition measures, domain-specific changes in daily functioning, and interactions between cognitive processes and daily life, as well as methodological approaches like item response theory, Bayesian statistics, and psychometric m... more

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