Open Access Publications of the Institute

Aguilera González, V. A., Cetin, G., Zika, S., Schulz, A., Pirsch, M., Dalski, A., & Grotheer, M. (2026). Regions in the human inferior temporal gyrus are engaged in numerosity processing across visual stimulus categories. Cerebral Cortex, 36(6), Article bhag065. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhag065

Aigner, C. S., Forlim, C. G., Santoro, D., Bodammer, N. C., Brühl, R., Sudimac, S., Schmalen, K., Schröder, S., Mohammadi, S., & Kühn, S. (2026). MRI goes mobile: Assessing the reliability and repeatability of a mobile vs. stationary 1.5 T MRI for functional neuroscience studies. NMR in Biomedicine, 39(7), Article e70310. https://doi.org/10.1002/nbm.70310

Akin, G., Schwarze, S. A., Lindenberger, U., Bunge, S. A., & Fandakova, Y. (2026). Individual differences in error-related brain activity and post-error slowing in children. Human Brain Mapping, 47(9), Article e70581. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.70581

Anand, S., Claassen, M. A., Riedy, C. A., & Hertwig, R. (2026). The toothbrushing boost toolbox: Competence-building behavioral strategies for oral health. Frontiers in Public Health, 14, Article 1834743. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1834743

Ascone, L., Mahlke, C., Tawil, N., Samaan, L., Frisch, M., Nugent, L., Nixdorf, R., Börncke, F., Lüdecke, D., Fischer, R., Bach, N., Hackbarth, C., McCall, T., Gallinat, J., & Kühn, S. (2026). Informing the redesign of psychiatric seclusion rooms: A mixed-methods pre-evaluation with individuals with lived experience. BMC Psychiatry, 26, Article 58. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-026-07780-0

Ascone, L., Mostajeran, F., Hagen, H., Börncke, F., Klock, L., Gallinat, J., & Kühn, S. (2026). Compassion-focused virtual reality for individuals with a psychotic disorder: A randomized-controlled pilot study. Psychosis, 18(1), 47–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/17522439.2025.2545769

Ascone, L., Samaan, L., Augustin, J., & Kühn, S. (2026). Nature vs. abstract imagery as an indoor design intervention in senior residential settings: Effects on cognition, affect, and pain in very old age. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 113, Article 103115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103115

Asuako, P. A. G., Mueckstein, M., Stojan, R., Mack, M., Schwarze, S. A., Stelzel, C., Fandakova, Y., Stephan, D. N., & Voelcker-Rehage, C. (2026). Effect of modality compatibility on dual-task performance in a more naturalistic environment. Psychological Research, 90, Article 21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-026-02238-0

Baumann, F., Arora, N., Rahwan, I., & Czaplicka, A. (2026). Dynamics of algorithmic content amplification on TikTok. EPJ Data Science, 15, Article 18. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-026-00629-2

Beck, E. D., Willroth, E. C., Delius, J. A. M., Bennett, D. A., Barnes, L. L., James, B. D., Lipton, R. B., Katz, M., Hassing, L. B., Huisman, M., Mroczek, D. K., & Graham, E. K. (2026). A taxonomy of data synthesis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672261451901

Bentz, D., & Wulff, D. U. (2026). Leveraging large language models to map triggers of contamination-related obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Communications Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-026-00503-x

Beyer, M., Kuznetsov, D., & Kühn, S. (2026). The German Twin Registry (GERTRUD): Towards harmonized, multisource twin research. Twin Research and Human Genetics. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/thg.2026.10057

Born, F., & Spitzer, B. (2026). Long-term effects of working memory retrieval from prioritized and deprioritized states. Communications Psychology, 4, Article 32. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-026-00399-7

Borukhson, D., Fegert, J., & Lorenz-Spreen, P. (2026). Diverging associations of traditional versus social media with government trust. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 13, Article 1157. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-026-08323-4

Brandmaier, A. M. (2026). Rethinking Cohen’s d: From effect size to detectability. Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation, 31(1), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.7275/pare.3550

Brinkmann, L., Eisenmann, T. F., Nussberger, A.-M., Derex, M., Bonati, S., Chirkov, V., & Rahwan, I. (in press). Experimental evidence for the propagation and preservation of machine discoveries in human populations. Nature Communications.

Buchberger, E., Brandmaier, A. M., Lindenberger, U., Werkle-Bergner, M., & Ngo, C. T. (in press). The process structure of memory abilities in early and middle childhood [Registered Report]. Developmental Science.

Ciranka, S., Chevallier, C., & Nettle, D. (2026). Low socioeconomic status amplifies the perceived rarity of large rewards. Cognition, 270, Article 106409. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106409

Dau, P. H., Giese, H., Rumpel, M., Hertwig, R., & Wegwarth, O. (2026). The role of personal experience, contemptuous beliefs and accountability after the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: A mixed methods study. Health Policy, 172, Article 105709. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2026.105709

Daugherty, A. M., Carr, V., Canada, K. L., Rådman, G., Brown, T., Augustinack, J., Amunts, K., Bakker, A., Berron, D., Burggren, A., Chetelat, G., de Flores, R., Ding, S.-L., Huang, Y., Johnson, E., Kanel, P., Keresztes, A., Kedo, O., Kennedy, K. M., Lee, J., Malykhin, N., Martinez, A., Mueller, S., Mulligan, E., Ofen, N., Palombo, D., Pasquini, L., Pluta, J., Raz, N., Riggins, T., Rodrigue, K. M., Saifullah, S., Schlichting, M. L., Stark, C., Wang, L., Yushkevich, P., La Joie, R., Wisse, L., Olsen, R., Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, & Hippocampal Subfields Group. (2026). Harmonized protocol for subfield segmentation in the hippocampal body on high-resolution in vivo MRI from the Hippocampal Subfields Group (HSG). Hippocampus, 36(2), Article e70073. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.70073