Dixon, R.A., McFall, G.P., Whitehead, B.P., & Dolcos, S. (in press). Cognitive development in adulthood and aging. In R.M. Lerner, M.A. Easterbrooks, & J. Mistry (Eds.), Handbook of psychology: Vol. 6 Developmental psychology (2nd ed.). Editor-in-chief: I.B. Weiner. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Dixon, R.A., Small, B.J., MacDonald, S.W.S., & McArdle, J.J. (in press). Yes, memory declines with aging--but when, how, and why? In M. Naveh-Benjamin & N. Ohta (Eds.), Memory and aging. New York: Psychology Press.

Small, B.J., Dixon, R.A., McArdle, J.J., & Grimm, K.J. (in press). Do changes in lifestyle engagement moderate cognitive decline in normal aging? Evidence from the Victoria Longitudinal Study. Neuropsychology.

Van der Elst, W., Hoogenhout, E.M., Dixon, R.A., De Groot, R.H.M., & Jolles, J. (in press). The Dutch Memory Compensation Questionnaire: Psychometric properties and regression-based norms. Assessment.

Zahodne, L.B., Glymour, M.M., Sparks, C., Bontempo, D., Dixon, R.A., MacDonald, S.W.S., & Manly, J.J. (in press). Education does not slow cognitive decline with aging: 12-year evidence from the Victoria Longitudinal Study. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.

Dixon, R.A. (2011). Evaluating everyday competence in older adult couples: Epidemiological considerations. Gerontology, 57, 173-179.

Dolcos, S., Sung, K., Denkova, E., Dixon, R.A., & Dolcos, F. (2011). Brain imaging investigation of the neural correlates of emotion regulation. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 54, e2430.
doi: 10.3791/2430

MacDonald, S.W.S., DeCarlo, C.A., & Dixon, R.A. (2011). Linking biological and cognitive aging: Towards improving characterizations of developmental time. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 66B, i59-i70.

MacDonald, S.W.S., Hultsch, D.F., & Dixon, R.A. (2011). Aging and the shape of cognitive change before death: Terminal decline or terminal drop? Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 66B, 292-301.

Small, B.J., Dixon, R.A., & McArdle, J.J. (2011). Tracking differences in cognition-health changes from 55 to 95 years of age: Findings from the Victoria Longitudinal Study. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 66B, i153-i161.

Whitehead, B.P., Dixon, R.A., Hultsch, D.F., & MacDonald, S.W.S. (2011). Are neurocognitive speed and inconsistency similarly affected in Type 2 diabetes? Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 33, 647-657.

Dixon, R.A. (2010). An epidemiological approach to cognitive health in aging. In L. Bäckman & L. Nyberg (Eds.), Memory, aging, and the brain (pp. 144-166). London: Psychology Press.

Dixon, R.A. (2010). Enduring theoretical themes in psychological aging: Derivation, functions, perspectives, and opportunities. In K.W. Schaie & S.L. Willis (Eds.), Handbook of the psychology of aging (7th ed.; pp. 3-23). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

McFall, G.P., Geall, B.P., Fischer, A.L., Dolcos, S., & Dixon, R.A. (2010). Testing covariates of Type 2 diabetes-cognition associations in older adults: Moderating or mediating effects? Neuropsychology, 24, 547-562.

de Frias, C.M., Dixon, R.A., & Strauss, E. (2009). Characterizing executive functioning in older special populations: From cognitively elite to cognitively impaired. Neuropsychology, 23, 778-791.

Dixon, R.A., & de Frias, C.M. (2009). Long-term stability and variability in memory compensation among older adults: Evidence from the Victoria Longitudinal Study. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 41, 1091-1101.

Fischer, A.L., de Frias, C.M., Yeung, S.E., & Dixon, R.A. (2009). Short-term longitudinal trends in cognitive performance in older adults with Type 2 diabetes. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 31, 809-822.

Hultsch, D.F., Bielak, A.A.M., Crow, C.B., & Dixon, R.A. (2009). The way we were: Perceptions of past memory change in older adults. In H.B. Bosworth & C. Hertzog (Eds.), Cognition in aging: Methodologies and applications (pp. 197-216). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

McFall, G.P., Geall, B., & Dixon, R.A. (2009). Is Type 2 diabetes associated with cognitive deficits in older adults? AAGMag, 26(2), 12-15.

Yeung, S.E., Fischer, A.L., & Dixon, R.A. (2009). Exploring effects of Type 2 diabetes on cognitive functioning in older adults. Neuropsychology, 23, 1-9.

Dixon, R.A., Garrett, D.D., & Bäckman, L. (2008). Principles of compensation in cognitive neuroscience and neurorehabilitation. In D.T. Stuss, G. Winocur, & I.H. Robertson (Eds.), Cognitive neurorehabilitation (2nd ed.; pp. 22-38) . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gagnon, L.M., & Dixon, R.A. (2008). Remembering and retelling stories in individual and collaborative contexts. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 22, 1275-1297.

MacDonald, S.W.S., Hultsch, D.F., & Dixon, R.A. (2008). Predicting impending death: Inconsistency in speed is a selective and early marker. Psychology and Aging, 23, 595-607.

Mansueti, L., de Frias, C.M., Bub, D., & Dixon, R.A. (2008). Exploring cognitive effects of self-reported mild stroke in older adults: Selective but robust effects on story memory. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 15, 545-573.

Bielak, A.A.M., Hughes, T.F., Small, B.J., & Dixon, R.A. (2007). It's never too late to engage in lifestyle activities: Significant concurrent but not change relationships between lifestyle activities and cognitive speed. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 62, 331-339.

Dixon, R.A., & de Frias, C.M. (2007). Mild memory deficits differentially affect six-year changes in compensatory strategy use. Psychology and Aging, 22, 632-638.

de Frias, C.M., Dixon, R.A., Fisher, N., & Camicioli, R. (2007). Intraindividual variability in neurocognitive speed: A comparison of Parkinson's disease and normal older adults. Neuropsychologia, 45, 2499-2507.

Dixon, R.A., Garrett, D.D., Lentz, T.L., MacDonald, S.W.S., Strauss, E., & Hultsch, D.F. (2007). Neurocognitive markers of cognitive impairment: Exploring the roles of speed and inconsistency. Neuropsychology, 21, 381-399.

Dixon, R.A., Rust, T.B., Feltmate, S.E., & Kwong See, S. (2007). Memory and aging: Selected research directions and application issues. Canadian Psychology, 48, 67-76.

de Frias, C.M., Dixon, R.A., & Strauss, E. (2006). Structure of executive functioning tests in healthy older adults. Neuropsychology, 20, 206-214.

Dixon, R.A. (2006). Metamemory. In R. Schulz (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Aging (4th ed.; pp. 772-776). New York: Springer.

Small, B.J., Hughes, T.F., Hultsch, D.F., & Dixon, R.A. (2006). Lifestyle activities and late-life changes in cognitive performance. In Y. Stern (Ed.), Cognitive reserve (pp. 173-186). New York, NY: Psychology Press.

Wahlin, Å., MacDonald, S.W.S., de Frias, C.M., Nilsson, L.-G., & Dixon, R.A. (2006). How do health and biological age influence chronological age and sex differences in cognitive aging: Moderating, mediating, or both? Psychology and Aging, 21, 318-332 .

Bielak, A.A.M., Mansueti, L., Strauss, E., & Dixon, R.A. (2006). Performance on the Hayling and Brixton tests in older adults: Norms and correlates. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 21, 141-149.

Cohen, A.-L., Dixon, R.A., & Lindsay, D.S. (2005). The intention interference effect and aging: Similar magnitude of effects for young and old adults. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19, 1177-1197.

de Frias, C.M, & Dixon, R.A. (2005). Confirmatory factor structure and measurement invariance of the Memory Compensation Questionnaire. Psychological Assessment, 17, 168-178.

Hertzog, C., & Dixon, R.A. (2005). Metacognition in midlife. In S.L. Willis & M. Marting (Eds.), Middle adulthood: A lifespan perspective (pp. 355-379). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.

Dixon, R.A., & de Frias, C.M. (2004). The Victoria Longitudinal Study: From characterizing cognitive aging to illustrating changes in memory compensation. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 11, 346-376.

Dixon, R.A., & Nilsson, L.-G. (2004). Don’t fence us in: Probing the frontiers of cognitive aging. In R.A. Dixon, L. Backman, & L.-G. Nilsson (Eds). New Frontiers in Cognitive Aging (pp. 3-15). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Dixon, R.A., Wahlin, Å., Maitland, S.B., Hultsch, D.F., Hertzog, C., & Bäckman, L. (2004). Episodic memory change in late adulthood: Generalizability across samples and performance indices. Memory & Cognition, 32, 768-778.

MacDonald, S.W.S., Dixon, R.A., Cohen, A.-L., & Hazlitt, J.E. (2004). Biological age and 12-year cognitive change in older adults: Findings from the Victoria Longitudinal Study. Gerontology, 50, 64-81.

Cohen, A.-L., Dixon, R.A., Lindsay, D.S., & Masson, M.E.J. (2003). The effect of perceptual distinctiveness on the prospective and retrospective components of prospective memory in young and old adults. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57, 274-289.

de Frias, C.M., Dixon, R.A., & Bäckman, L. (2003). Older adults' use of memory compensation strategies is related to psychosocial and health indicators. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 58, 12-22.

Dixon, R.A. (2003). Themes in the aging of intelligence: Robust decline with intriguing possibilities. In R.J. Sternberg, J. Lautrey, & T. Lubart (Eds.), Models of intelligence (pp. 151-167). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Dixon, R.A., & Cohen, A.-L. (2003). Cognitive development in adulthood. In R.M. Lerner, M.A. Easterbrooks, & J. Mistry (Eds.), Comprehensive handbook of psychology, Vol. 6: Developmental psychology (pp. 443-461). New York: John Wiley.

Dixon, R.A., Hopp, G.A., Cohen, A.-L., de Frias, C.M., & Bäckman, L. (2003). Self-reported memory compensation: Similar patterns in Alzheimer's disease and very old adult samples. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 25, 382-390.

Hertzog, C., Dixon, R.A., Hultsch, D.F., & MacDonald, S.W.S. (2003). Latent change models of adult cognition: Are changes in processing speed and working memory associated with changes in episodic memory? Psychology and Aging, 18, 755-770.

MacDonald, S.W.S., Hultsch, D.F., & Dixon, R.A. (2003). Age-related slowing of digit symbol substitution revisited: What do longitudinal age changes reflect? Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 58, 187-194.

MacDonald, S.W.S., Hultsch, D.F., & Dixon, R.A. (2003). Performance variability is related to change in cognition: Evidence from the Victoria Longitudinal Study. Psychology and Aging, 18, 510-523.

Nyberg, L., Maitland, S.B., Rönnlund, M., Bäckman, L., Dixon, R.A., Wahlin, Å., & Nilsson, L.-G. (2003). Selective adult age differences in an age-invariant multi-factor model of declarative memory. Psychology and Aging, 18, 149-160.

Small, B.J., Hertzog, C., Hultsch, D.F., & Dixon, R.A. (2003). Instability after only 6 years? A longitudinal confirmatory factor analysis of the NEO Personality Inventory. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 58, 166-176.

Wahlin, Å., Maitland, S.B., Bäckman, L., & Dixon, R.A. (2003). Interrelations between subjective health and episodic memory change in Swedish and Canadian samples of older adults. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 57, 21-36.

Dixon, R.A. (2002). Metamemory. In D.J. Eckerdt (Ed.), The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Aging. New York: Macmillan.

Dixon, R.A. (2002). Should there be a handbook of the psychology of aging? The Gerontologist, 42, 859-863.

Dixon, R.A., Cohen, A.-L., & MacDonald, S.W.S. (2002). Plasticity. In D.J. Ekerdt (Ed.), The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Aging. New York: Macmillan.

Hultsch, D.F., MacDonald, S.W.S., & Dixon, R.A. (2002). Variability in reaction time performance of younger and older adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 57, P101-115.

Hultsch, D.F., MacDonald, S.W.S., Hunter, M.A., Maitland, S.B., & Dixon, R.A. (2002). Sampling and generalizability in psychological research on aging: Comparison of a random sample and samples of convenience. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 26, 345-359.

Dixon, R.A. (2001). Collaborative memory. In N.J. Smelser & P.B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Vol. 14; pp. 9570- 9572). Oxford: Elsevier Science.

Dixon, R.A. (2001). Developmental psychology. In N.J. Smelser & P.B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Vol. 6; pp. 3607- 3612). Oxford: Elsevier Science.

Dixon, R.A., & Cohen, A.-L. (2001). Psychology of aging: Canadian research in an international context. Canadian Journal on Aging, 20, 125-148.

Dixon, R.A., de Frias, C.M., & Bäckman, L. (2001). Characteristics of self-reported memory compensation in late life. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 23, 650-661.

Dixon, R.A., de Frias, C.M., & Maitland, S.B. (2001). Memory in midlife. In M.E. Lachman (Ed.), Handbook of midlife development (pp. 248-278). New York: John Wiley.

Maitland, S.B., Dixon, R.A., Hultsch, D.F., & Hertzog, C. (2001). Well-being as a moving target: Measurement equivalence of the Bradburn Affect Balance Scale. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 56B, P69-77.

Bäckman, L., Ginovart, N., Dixon, R.A., Wahlin, T-B.R., Wahlin, Å., Halldin, C., & Farde, L. (2000). Age-related cognitive deficits are mediated by changes in the striatal dopamine system. American Journal of Psychiatry, 157, 635-637.

Dixon, R.A. (2000). Concepts and mechanisms of gains in cognitive aging. In D. Park & N. Schwarz (Eds.), Cognitive aging: A primer (pp. 23-41). Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press.

Dixon, R.A. (2000). Memory and aging. In A.E. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology (Vol. 5; pp. 172-175). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Dixon, R.A. (2000). The concept of metamemory: Cognitive, developmental, and clinical issues. In G.E. Berrios & J. Hodges (Eds.), Memory complaints and disorders: The neuropsychiatric perspective (pp. 47-57). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hertzog, C., & Hultsch, D.F. (2000). Metacognition in adulthood and aging. In T.A. Salthouse & F.I.M. Craik (Eds.), Handbook of aging and cognition (2nd ed.; pp. 417-466). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Dixon, R.A. (1999). Exploring cognition in interactive situations: The aging of N+1 minds. In T.M. Hess & F. Blanchard-Fields (Eds.), Social cognition and aging (pp. 267-290). San Diego: Academic Press.

Dixon, R.A., & Bäckman, L. (1999). Principles of compensation in cognitive neurorehabilitation. In D.T. Stuss, G. Winocur, & I.H. Robertson (Eds.), Cognitive neurorehabilitation: A comprehensive approach (pp. 59-72). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dixon, R.A., Hazlitt, J.E., & Cohen, A.-L. (1999). [Review of the book Improving competence across the lifespan: Building interventions based on theory and research]. Canadian Journal on Aging, 18, 110-113.

Dixon, R.A., & Hultsch, D.F. (1999). Intelligence and cognitive potential in late life. In J.C. Cavanaugh & S.K. Whitbourne (Eds.), Gerontology: An interdisciplinary perspective (pp. 213-237). New York: Oxford University Press.

Dixon, R.A., & Lerner, R.M. (1999). A history of systems in developmental psychology. In M.H. Bornstein & M.E. Lamb (Eds.), Developmental Psychology: An advanced textbook (4th ed.; pp. 3-45). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Hertzog, C., Hultsch, D.F., & Dixon, R.A. (1999). On the problem of detecting effects of lifestyle on cognitive change in adulthood. Psychology and Aging, 14, 528-534.

Hultsch, D.F., Hertzog, C., Small, B.J., & Dixon, R.A. (1999). Use it or lose it: Engaged lifestyle as a buffer of cognitive decline in aging? Psychology and Aging, 14, 245- 263.

Small, B.J., Dixon, R.A., Hultsch, D.F., & Hertzog, C. (1999). Longitudinal changes in quantitative and qualitative indicators of word and story recall in young-old and old-old adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 54B, P107-115.

Dixon, R.A., Bäckman, L., & Nilsson, L.-G. (Eds.). (2004). New frontiers in cognitive aging. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hultsch, D.F., Hertzog, C., Dixon, R.A., & Small, B.J. (1998). Memory change in the aged. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Dixon, R. A., & Bäckman, L. (Eds.). (1995). Compensating for psychological deficits and declines: Managing losses and promoting gains. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Dixon, R.A., Hertzog, C., & Hultsch, D.F. (2008). Metamemory in Adulthood (MIA) questionnaire. Technical Report (pp. 1-30).  Edmonton, Canada: University of Alberta, Department of Psychology.

Dixon, R.A., & Bäckman, L. (2007). Memory Compensation Questionnaire (MCQ). Technical Report (pp. 1-16).  Edmonton, Canada: University of Alberta, Department of Psychology.

Dixon, R.A., Hultsch, D.F., & Hertzog, C. (2007). Story recall: Measuring complex episodic memory in aging. Technical Report (pp. 1-58). Edmonton, Canada: University of Alberta, Department of Psychology.

Dixon, R.A., Hultsch, D.F., & Hertzog, C. (2007). VLS Personal Data Sheet (PDS). Technical Report (pp. 1-35).  Edmonton, Canada: University of Alberta, Department of Psychology.

Dixon, R.A., Hultsch, D.F., & Hertzog, C. (2006). VLS Activity Lifestyle Questionnaire (VLS-ALQ). Technical Report (pp. 1-23).  Edmonton, Canada: University of Alberta, Department of Psychology.

Dixon, R.A., Hultsch, D.F., & Hertzog, C. (2006). VLS memory exercises: Word lists. Technical Report (pp. 1-14).  Edmonton, Canada: University of Alberta, Department of Psychology.