Krendl Lab
Principal Investigator: Anne Catherine Krendl
Institution: Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
Primary Subfield: Neuroscience
Recruitment Status: ✅ Hiring Postdocs
Research Focus
PROJECT SUMMARY Social connectedness is critical for promoting healthy aging, including delaying the onset of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Developing and maintaining social relationships relies on social cognitive function – the process by which people understand, store, and apply information about others. Social cognitive decline is a hallmark feature of healthy aging that has been implicated in exacerbating the onset and progression of AD. Thus, understanding the mechanisms underlying age-related social cognitive deficits is essential for ultimately improving the clinical course of AD. Neuroscience is uniquely suited to identify these mechanisms because the brain regions underlying social behavior have been well-characterized. However, the limited work in this domain has relied on narrowly defined measures of brain activity and impoverished stimuli, which neglect the complex and dynamic nature of brain function and of social interactions. The current proposal thus applies cutting-edge computational methods from the field of network neuroscience to social cognitive aging to examine how age-related changes in brain networks affect dynamic social cognitive processes. Specifically, we f…
Active NIH Awards
- 5R01AG075044-05: Dynamic approaches to understanding social cognitive aging: A social network neuroscience approach (2026)
- 2RF1AG070931-06: Understanding how social cognition protects older adults' cognitive health: the role of social connectedness (2026)
- 5R01AG075044-04: Dynamic approaches to understanding social cognitive aging: A social network neuroscience approach (2025)
- 5R01AG075044-03: Dynamic approaches to understanding social cognitive aging: A social network neuroscience approach (2024)
- 5R01AG070931-05: Understanding how social connectedness protects older adults' cognitive health: the role of social cognition (2024)
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