Associate Professor
Ben Katz is an Associate Professor in Adult Development and Aging in the Department of Human Development and Family Science at Virginia Tech. His research focuses on the development of executive function, or the processes that support our capacities to learn, reason, think, and decide, throughout the life course, and how these processes might be influenced by experience and intervention. Before his academic career, he worked as a game designer in Austin and San Francisco, including at Lumosity.com
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Aug. 11, 2024
A Conversation About Mental and Physiological Aging with Ben Katz and Pamela Teaster
My guests today on Specifically for Seniors caught my attention in an Opinion piece in the Washington Post. Professors Ben Katz and Pamela Teaster urged “an objective, scientific conversation about mental and physiological aging - both for our leaders and for the rapidly aging populations around the world” realizing that these conversations are both difficult and obligatory. We’re going to try to at least open that conversation here on Specifically for Seniors, today. Both Ben Katz and Pamela ...