52. Example of a well-written abstract (other than the one by Nobel Laureates)

Let’s talk about an excellent abstract that I read this week. It was so well written, and I was so excited to read it that I wanted to talk about it with you today. The beauty of it is that the first 3 structural components guide us through the authors’ intention and question very clearly. But there was also a little twist to the structure: we will talk about it, too.   

The abstract that we talked about today was from the following paper:

• “A meta-analysis of technology use and cognitive aging”
• Benge & Scullin, Nature Human Behaviour, 2025 
• “Online ahead of print” (thus, no volume number or page numbers) as of the date of this episode upload.
• PubMed link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40229575/
• Journal link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02159-9

We can read its abstract on either of the above websites.

Unfortunately, the other parts of the paper are subscription-based. So, they are accessible, if you or your institutions have a subscription to the journal.

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