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This list represents only a selected highlight of publications.  Please contact Dr. Shake for a complete list.

* Indicates Student Co-Author

  • Shake, M., & *Anderson, A. (2025). Effects of mood induction and depression on mind wandering tendencies in older and younger adults.  Gerontology. https://doi.org/10.1159/000546773.  
  • Shake, M.C., & *Blake, C.D. (2021a). Prevention and intervention approaches for successful cognitive aging. In J.N. Lester & M. O’Reilly (Eds)., Critical Perspectives on Mental Health: Old Age. Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12852-4_68-1. 
  • Shake, M.C., & *Blake, C.D. (2021b). Normal cognitive aging. In J.N. Lester & M. O’Reilly (Eds)., Critical Perspectives on Mental Health: Old Age. Palgrave MacMillan.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12852-4_69-1.
  • *Zakrocka, A., Zurek, G., Crandall, K.J., Shake, M. (2021). An intercultural comparison of European and United States older adults’ fitness behaviors. International Journal of Current Research, 13(1), 15982-15986. https://doi.org/10.24941/ijcr.40660.01.2021 
  • *Weyman, K., Shake, M.C., & Redifer, J. (2020). Extensive experience with multiple languages may not buffer against aging declines in executive function. Experimental Aging Research, 46(4), 291-310, doi: 10.1080/0361073X.2020.1753402
  • Middleton, G., Henderson, H., *Clay, G., *Mongan, A., *Daniel, M., Crandall, K.J., Shake, M.C., & Broom, D. (2020). Exploring the effects of Bingocize®: an interactive community-based physical activity intervention for older adults in the United Kingdom. A Technical Report for Age UK. University of Lincoln, UK. http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/41425/1/Age%20UK_BGZ%20report%202020.pdf 
  • *Dispennette, K., Crandall, K.J., Schafer, M., Shake, M.C., Macy, G., & *Clark, B. (2019). Effects of a game-centered health promotion program on fall risk, health knowledge, and quality of life in community-dwelling older adults. International Journal of Exercise Science, 12(4), 1149-1160. PMID: 31839849. 
  • Crandall, K. J., Shake, M.C., & Ziegler, U. (2019). Assessing the Impact of a Game-Centered Mobile App on Community- Dwelling Older Adults’ Health Activation. OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine, 4(3). https://doi.org/10.21926/obm.icm.1903041
  • Shake, M. C., Crandall, K.J., *Mathews, R.P., *Falls, D.G., & *Dispennette, A.K. (2018). Efficacy of Bingocize®: A Game-Centered Mobile Application to Improve Physical and Cognitive Performance in Older Adults. Games for Health Journal, 7(4), 253–261. http://doi.org/10.1089/g4h.2017.0139
  • *Falls, D.G., Shake, M.C., Norris, E., Arnett, S., Taylor, J., & Crandall, K.J. (2018). Bingocize®: Utilizing a mobile application to improve gait in community-dwelling older adults. American Journal of Recreation Therapy, 17(2), 9-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5055/ajrt.2018.0156
  • Shake, M.C., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2017). Language and Aging. Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology, 1–6. http://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.01889-7.
  • Crandall K., & Shake M. (2016). A mobile application for improving functional performance and health education in older adults: A pilot study. Journal of Aging Science, 4(2), 55-67. doi:10.4172/2329-8847.1000151
  • *Shulley, L.J., & Shake, M.C. (2016). Investigating the relationship between bilingualism, cognitive control, and mind wandering. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 28(3), 257-274. doi: 10.1080/20445911.2015.1128438
  • Shake, M.C., *Shulley, L.J., & *Soto-Freita, A.M. (2016). Effects of individual differences and situational features on age differences in mindless reading. The Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 71(5), 808-820.doi:10.1093/geronb/gbv012
  • Shake, M.C. & *Shulley, L.J. (2014). Differences between functional and subjective overconfidence in post-diction judgments of test performance. Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 12(2), 263-282. doi:10.14204/ejrep.33.14005
  • Shake, M.C. & *Perschke, M.K. (2013). Investigating the effects of veridicality on age differences in verbal working memory.  International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 76(3), 215-225. doi:10.2190/AG.76.3.c
  • Morrow, D., D’Andrea, L., Stine-Morrow, E., Shake, M.C., Gao, X., Chin, J., Bertel, S., Connor-Garcia, T., Graumlich, J., & Murray, M. (2012). Health knowledge and older adults’ comprehension of multimedia health information. In J. Holsanova (Ed.), Multimodal Methodologies: Special Issue of Visual Communication, 11(3), 347-362. doi:10.1177/1470357212446413
  • Shake, M.C., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2011). Age differences in resolving anaphoric expressions during reading. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 18, 678-707. doi: 10.1080/13825585.2011.607228
  • Stine-Morrow, E.A.L., Noh, S., & Shake, M.C. (2010). Age differences in the effects of conceptual processing strategies on resource allocation in reading. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 1430-1455. doi: 10.1080/17470210903330983
  • Stine-Morrow, E.A.L., Shake, M.C., Miles, J.R., Lee, K., & McConkie, G. (2010). Pay now or pay later: Aging and the role of boundary salience in self-regulation of conceptual integration in sentence processing. Psychology and Aging, 25, 168-176. doi:10.1037/a0018127
  • Shake, M.C., Noh, S., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2009). Age differences in learning from text: Evidence for functionally distinct text processing systems. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23, 561-578. doi: 10.1002/acp.1494
  • Shake, M.C. (2009). Effects of expectancy and context on anaphor resolution in older and younger adults. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section A: Humanities and Social Sciences, 70(6-A), 1926.
  • Bauer, T.L., Shake, M.C., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2008). Surprise detection in document corpora. (U.S. Government Technical Report: DOE Publication No. SAND2008-4336). Albuquerque, NM: Sandia National Labs.
  • Noh, S., Shake, M.C., Parisi, J.M., Joncich, A.D., Morrow, D.G., & Stine-Morrow, E.A.L. (2007). Age differences in learning from text: The effects of content pre-exposure on reading. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 31, 133-148.
  • Stine-Morrow, E.A.L., Shake, M.C., Miles, J.R., & Noh, S. (2006). Adult age differences in the effects of goals on self-regulated sentence processing. Psychology and Aging, 21, 790-803.

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