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ArticlePloS one2026

Cognitive functioning in context: Leisure activity engagement, social capital, and urbanicity-rurality interplay.

B Paige Trubenstein, Shandell Pahlen, Robin P Corley, Sergio Rey, Sally J Wadsworth, Chandra A Reynolds

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Article in PloS one, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

B Paige TrubensteinUniversity of California, Riverside - (United States of America), Department of Psychology, Riverside, California, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3999-3866
Shandell PahlenUniversity of California, Riverside - (United States of America), Department of Psychology, Riverside, California, United States of America.
Robin P CorleyUniversity of Colorado, Boulder - (United States of America) - Institute for Behavioral Genetics, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America.
Sergio ReyUniversity of California, Riverside - (United States of America) - School of Public Policy, 900 University Ave, Riverside, California , United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5857-9762
Sally J WadsworthUniversity of Colorado, Boulder - (United States of America) - Institute for Behavioral Genetics, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America.
Chandra A ReynoldsUniversity of California, Riverside - (United States of America), Department of Psychology, Riverside, California, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6502-7173

Funding

Colorado Adoption/Twin Study of Lifespan behavioral development & cognitive aging (CATSLife2)R01AG046938 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI REYNOLDS, CHANDRA A, WADSWORTH, SALLY J · 2015 to 2024
$18.5M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG046938
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Leisure activity associations with cognition may operate differently depending on an individual's context. We evaluated whether activity-cognition associations were influenced by community and geographic features in CATSLife (Mage = 33.17 years, N = 1201). Measures included cognition indexed by IQ and activity engagement indexed by time, cognitive demand, and frequency. County-level Index of Relative Rurality (IRR) and Social Capital Index (SCI), i.e., the availability of social networks and resources, captured environmental features. In multilevel models, activity engagement was more strongly associated with IQ than SCI and rurality. We found evidence that activity-IQ associations were magnified in urban environments when SCI was high, but associations were reduced when SCI was low. However, adolescent IQ diminished associations, revealing selection effects. Our findings highlight interrelated individual, community, and geographic factors influencing cognitive functioning, but also the saliency of earlier life cognition to attained contexts, that together may contribute to cognitive maintenance at midlife and beyond.

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CognitionLeisure ActivitiesRural PopulationSocial CapitalUrban PopulationAdolescentFemaleHumansMale

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PMID41563997
PMCPMC12822974

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