Benjamin Katz

LIFE Fellow from 2014 to 2017, University of Michigan

PhD

Dissertation completed in 2017

Moderators of Cognitive Training: Individual Differences and Motivational Factors

(Advisors: Priti Shah & John Jonides)

Selected Publications

Katz, B., Turney, I., Lee, J. H., Amini, R., Ajrouch, K. J., & Antonucci, T. C. (2020). Race/Ethnic differences in social resources as cognitive risk and protective factors. Research in Human Development, 17(1), 57–77.  https://doi.org/10.1080/15427609.2020.1743809

Katz, B., Shah, P., & Meyer, D. E. (2018). How to play 20 questions with nature and lose: Reflections on 100 years of brain-training research. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(40), 9897-9904.  https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1617102114

Katz, B., Jaeggi, S., Buschkuehl, M., Stegman, A., & Shah, P. (2014). Differential effect of motivational features on training improvements in school-based cognitive training. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, Article 242. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00242