Drew Altschul
Postdoctoral Researcher
- Psychology
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: drew.altschul@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room F2, Psychology Building
- City
- 7 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JZ
Qualifications
PhD Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, 2017
MS Neuroscience, Brandeis University, 2010
SB Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008
Research summary
My recent work can be roughly divided into three areas. First, the reciprocal relationships between health and cognitive abilities (e.g. Altschul, Starr, & Deary, 2018; Altschul, Wraw, Der, Gale, & Deary, 2019). Second, developing large-scale, collaborative projects to systematically study cognition and personality across the primate phylogeny (ManyPrimates et al., 2019a, 2019b). Third, grappling with how assertiveness traits are related to, but distinct from, hierarchical rank in a variety of primate species (e.g. Wilson et al., 2020; Altschul, Robinson, Coleman, Capitanio, Wilson, 2019).
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Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration
In:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 117, pp. 8398-8403
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915006117
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Playing analog games is associated with reduced declines in cognitive function: A 68 year longitudinal cohort study
In:
Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol. 75, pp. 474-482
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbz149
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Collaborative open science as a way to reproducibility and new insights in primate cognition research
In:
Japanese Psychological Review, vol. 62
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
DNA methylation-based measures of accelerated biological ageing and the risk of dementia in the oldest-old: a study of the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921
In:
BMC Psychiatry, vol. 20, pp. 91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-020-2469-9
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
How youth cognitive and sociodemographic factors relate to the development of overweight and obesity in the UK and the USA: a prospective cross-cohort study of the National Child Development Study and National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979
In:
BMJ Open, vol. 9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033011
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Establishing an infrastructure for collaboration in primate cognition research
(19 pages)
In:
PLoS ONE, vol. 14
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223675
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Leveraging multiple machine learning techniques to predict major life outcomes from a small set of psychological and socioeconomic variables: A combined bottom-up/top-down approach
In:
Socius, vol. 5, pp. 1-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023118819943
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)