Publications

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

Bouchard, A. E., Wong, D., Bogner, W., Gau, R., Halchenko, Y. O., Lamb, D. G., Markiewicz, C. J., Mullins, P. G., Niso, G., Oeltzschner, G., BIDS Maintainers [Member of the MPIB: Stefan Appelhoff], Clarke, W. T., Wilson, M., & Mikkelsen, M. (2025). MRS-BIDS, an extension to the Brain Imaging Data Structure for magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Scientific Data, 12, Article 1384. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05543-2

Graham, T. A., & Spitzer, B. (2025). Asymmetric learning and adaptability to changes in relational structure during transitive inference. Communications Psychology, 3, Article 155. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00352-0

Muttenthaler, L., Greff, K., Born, F., Spitzer, B., Kornblith, S., Mozer, M. C., Müller, K.-R., Unterthiner, T., & Lampinen, A. K. (2025). Aligning machine and human visual representations across abstraction levels. Nature, 647, 349–355. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09631-6

Sotero Silva, N., Kayser, C., & Bröhl, F. (2025). Unraveling eye movement-related eardrum oscillations (EMREOs): How saccade direction and tympanometric measurements relate to their amplitude and time course. Hearing Research, 461, Article 109276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2025.109276

Clarmann von Clarenau, V., Appelhoff, S., Pachur, T., & Spitzer, B. (2024). Over- and underweighting of extreme values in decisions from sequential samples. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(3), 814–826. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001530

Jeung, S., Cockx, H., Appelhoff, S., Berg, T., Gramann, K., Grothkopp, S., Warmerdam, E., Hansen, C., Oostenveld, R., BIDS Maintainers, & Welzel, J. (2024). Motion-BIDS: An extension to the brain imaging data structure to organize motion data for reproducible research. Scientific Data, 11, Article 716. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03559-8

Linde-Domingo, J., & Spitzer, B. (2024). Geometry of visuospatial working memory information in miniature gaze patterns. Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 336–348. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01737-z

Poldrack, R. A., Markiewicz, C. J., Appelhoff, S., Ashar, Y. K., Auer, T., Baillet, S., Bansal, S., Beltrachini, L., Benar, C. G., Bertazzoli, G., Bhogawar, S., Blair, R. W., Bortoletto, M., Boudreau, M., Brooks, T. L., Calhoun, V. D., Castelli, F. M., Clement, P., Cohen, A. L., Cohen-Adad, J., D'Ambrosio, S., de Hollander, G., de la Iglesia-Vayá, M., de la Vega, A., Delorme, A., Devinsky, O., Draschkow, D., Duff, E. P., DuPre, E., Earl, E., Esteban, O., Feingold, F. W., Flandin, G., Galassi, A., Gallitto, G., Ganz, M., Gau, R., Gholam, J., Ghosh, S. S., Giacomel, A., Gillman, A. G., Gleeson, P., Gramfort, A., Guay, S., Guidali, G., Halchenko, Y. O., Handwerker, D. A., Hardcastle, N., Herholz, P., Hermes, D., Honey, C. J., Innis, R. B., Ioanas, H.-I., Jahn, A., Karakuzu, A., Keator, D. B., Kiar, G., Kincses, B., Laird, A. R., Lau, J. C., Lazari, A., Legarreta, J. H., Li, A., Li, X., Love, B. C., Lu, H., Marcantoni, E., Maumet, C., Mazzamuto, G., Meisler, S. L., Mikkelsen, M., Mutsaerts, H., Nichols, T. E., Nikolaidis, A., Nilsonne, G., Niso, G., Norgaard, M., Okell, T. W., Oostenveld, R., Ort, E., Park, P. J., Pawlik, M., Pernet, C. R., Pestilli, F., Petr, J., Phillips, C., Poline, J.-B., Pollonini, L., Raamana, P. R., Ritter, P., Rizzo, G., Robbins, K. A., Rockhill, A. P., Rogers, C., Rokem, A., Rorden, C., Routier, A., Saborit-Torres, J. M., Salo, T., Schirner, M., Smith, R. E., Spisak, T., Sprenger, J., Swann, N. C., Szinte, M., Takerkart, S., Thirion, B., Thomas, A. G., Torabian, S., Varoquaux, G., Voytek, B., Welzel, J., Wilson, M., Yarkoni, T., & Gorgolewski, K. J. (2024). The past, present, and future of the brain imaging data structure (BIDS). Imaging Neuroscience, 2, Article imag_a_00103. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00103

Wenger, M., Maimon, A., Yizhar, O., Snir, A., Sasson, Y., & Amedi, A. (2024). Hearing temperatures: Employing machine learning for elucidating the cross-modal perception of thermal properties through audition. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, Article 1353490. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1353490

Appelhoff, S., Hertwig, R., & Spitzer, B. (2023). Control over sampling boosts numerical evidence processing in human decisions from experience. Cerebral Cortex, 33(1), 207–221. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac062

Keller, O., Appelhoff, S., Paffhausen, B. H., & Wenzel, T. (2023). Development and sharing of Open Science hardware: Lessons learned from Wikimedia fellowships. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 9, Article e95174. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.9.e95174

Shvadron, S., Snir, A., Maimon, A., Yizhar, O., Harel, S., Poradosu, K., & Amedi, A. (2023). Shape detection beyond the visual field using a visual-to-auditory sensory augmentation device. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17, Article 1058617. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1058617

Yizhar, O., Tal, Z., & Amedi, A. (2023). Loss of action-related function and connectivity in the blind extrastriate body area. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17, Article 973525. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.973525

Appelhoff, S., Hertwig, R., & Spitzer, B. (2022). EEG-representational geometries and psychometric distortions in approximate numerical judgment. PLoS Computational Biology, 18(12), Article e1010747. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010747

Arend, I., Yuen, K., Yizhar, O., Chebat, D.-R., & Amedi, A. (2022). Gyrification in relation to cortical thickness in the congenitally blind. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16, Article 970878. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.970878

Ciranka, S., Linde-Domingo, J., Padezhki, I., Wicharz, C., Wu, C. M., & Spitzer, B. (2022). Asymmetric reinforcement learning facilitates human inference of transitive relations. Nature Human Behaviour, 6, 555–564. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01263-w

Kerrén, C., van Bree, S., Griffiths, B. J., & Wimber, M. (2022). Phase separation of competing memories along the human hippocampal theta rhythm. eLife, 11, Article e80633. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.80633

Maimon, A., Yizhar, O., Buchs, G., Heimler, B., & Amedi, A. (2022). A case study in phenomenology of visual experience with retinal prosthesis versus visual-to-auditory sensory substitution. Neuropsychologia, 173, Article 108305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108305

Juechems, K., Balaguer, J., Spitzer, B., & Summerfield, C. (2021). Optimal utility and probability functions for agents with finite computational precision. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(2), Article e2002232118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2002232118