Minxia Luo, Dr.
- Postdoc
- Phone
- +41 44 635 72 27
- Address
- Binzmuehlestrasse 14 / Box 24, CH-8050 Zurich
- Room number
- BIN 4.B.22
Research Areas
- Healthy aging
- Cognitive aging
- Language use (corpus analysis)
- Real-life cognitive engagement
- Contexts
- Ambulatory assessment
Leader of the Peer Mentoring Project "R Group" 2019 - 2022
Refer to My video at Three Minute Thesis Competition 2020 (Jury Award - First place).
Awardee of the FAN Awards 2021.
Awardee of the Vontobel Award for Research on Age(ing) 2022.
Research Project
My research inquires what daily activities (e.g., social, physical, cognitive activities) and in which patterns older adults should do to maintain their cognitive health and wellbeing. I am also interested in contextual and psychological factors that enable older adults to maintain their activities in face of cognitive decline. In my research, I work with mobile sensing data (e.g., audio recordings, accelerometers) and population surveys, ranging from over seconds to over decades. I often work with mixed-effects models, random intercept cross-lagged panel model, and actor–partner interdependence model.
Publications (ZORA)
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Publications
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2025
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Journal Article
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Distance from home and working memory: daily associations varying by neighborhood environments in community-dwelling older adults. European Journal of Ageing, 22(1):17.
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Are women really (not) more talkative than men? A registered report of binary gender similarities/differences in daily word use. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 128(2):367-391.
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2024
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Activity Diversity and Well-Being in Daily Life: Evidence for Heterogeneity Between Older Adults. Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 79(6):1-31.
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Routineness of Social Interactions is Associated with Higher Affective Well-Being in Older Adults. Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 79(6):1-33.
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The perceived quality of social interactions differs by modality and purpose: An event-contingent experience sampling study with older adults. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 41(4):794-821.
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2023
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The short-term effects of activity engagement on working memory performance in older age. Psychology and Aging, 38(2):117-131.
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Daily activity diversity and daily working memory in community-dwelling older adults. Neuropsychology, 37(2):181-193.
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Charting everyday activities in later life: Study protocol of the mobility, activity, and social interactions study (MOASIS). Frontiers in Psychology, 13:1011177.
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GPS-derived daily mobility and daily well-being in community-dwelling older adults. Gerontology, 69(7):875-887.
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2022
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Alternating time spent on social interactions and solitude in healthy older adults. British Journal of Psychology:1-22.
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Not “The More The Merrier”: Diminishing Returns to Daily Face-To-Face Social Interaction Frequency for Well-being in Older Age. Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 77(8):1431-1441.
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Predicting Working Memory in Healthy Older Adults Using Real-Life Language and Social Context Information: A Machine Learning Approach. JMIR research protocols, 5(1):e28333.
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2021
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With a little help from familiar interlocutors: real-world language use in young and older adults. Aging & Mental Health, 25(12):2310-2319.
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Daily social interactions and well-being in older adults: The role of interaction modality. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38(12):3566-3589.
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Longitudinal Within-Person Associations Between Quality of Social Relations, Structure of Social Relations, and Cognitive Functioning in Older Age. Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 76(10):1960-1971.
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Coping With Imbalanced Data in the Automated Detection of Reminiscence From Everyday Life Conversations of Older Adults. IEEE Access, 9:116540-116551.
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2020
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Linear and Non-Linear Age Trajectories of Language Use: A Laboratory Observation Study of Couples' Conflict Conversations. Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 75(9):e206-e214.
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Social reminiscence in older adults' everyday conversations: automated detection using natural language processing and machine learning. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(9):e19133.
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