Ulman Lindenberger is a German-Italian psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist. His work integrates maturation, learning, and senescence in an overarching account of lifespan cognitive development. In an early and highly influential series of studies, Ulman pursued programmatic research on the interconnection between cognitive, sensory, and motor functions in normal human aging. Since then, his lifespan research program has uncovered age differences in the modifiability of behaviour, age changes and age differences in brain-behaviour relations, the role of neuromodulation and the importance of brain maintenance in human cognitive aging, and mechanisms that promote the emergence of individuality.
Through formal analysis, Ulman and colleagues showed that individuals need to be followed over time to identify causes of developmental change. Ulman plays a leading role in promoting advanced multivariate statistical techniques to study individual differences in change.
Ulman has published over 450 scientific papers and won several awards, including the 2010 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Professional position
- Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Max Planck Society
Subject groups
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Multicellular Organisms
Behavioural neuroscience, Development and control of behaviour, Experimental psychology
