Andreas Brandmaier - Publications

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.

Peikert, A., Ernst, M. S., & Brandmaier, A. M. (in press). Why does preregistration increase the persuasiveness of evidence? A Bayesian rationalization. Meta-Psychology.

Van Lissa, C. J., Peikert, A., Ernst, M. S., van Dongen, N. N. N., Schönbrodt, F. D., & Brandmaier, A. M. (2026). To be FAIR: Theory specification needs an update. Perspectives on Psychological Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916251401850

Brandmaier, A. M., & Peikert, A. (2025). Automated reproducibility testing in R Markdown. Collabra: Psychology, 11(1), Article 138638. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.138638

Degen, J. L., Pistoll, D., Brandmaier, A. M., & Bröning, S. (2025). Where you lead, I will follow: Developing a new measure for studying parasocial involvement with influencers. Cyberpsychology, 19(3), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.5817/CP2025-3-2

Demnitz, N., Baaré, W. F. C., Binnewies, J., Brandmaier, A. M., Fjell, A. M., Gates, A. T., Kievit, R., Kjaer, M., Madsen, K. S., Nyberg, L., Pudas, S., Siebner, H. R., Suri, S., Sørensen, Ø., Walhovd, K. B., Ebmeier, K. P., & Boraxbekk, C.-J. (2025). No significant association between self-reported physical activity and brain volumes in women and men from five European cohorts. Scientific Reports, 15, Article 19067. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-98601-z

Fjell, A. M., Rogeberg, O., Sørensen, Ø., Amlien, I. K., Bartrés-Faz, D., Brandmaier, A. M., Cattaneo, G., Düzel, S., Grydeland, H., Henson, R. N., Kühn, S., Lindenberger, U., Lyngstad, T. H., Mowinckel, A. M., Nyberg, L., Pascual-Leone, A., Solé-Padullés, C., Sneve, M. H., Solana, J., Strømstad, M., Watne, L. O., Walhovd, K. B., & Vidal-Piñeiro, D. (2025). Reevaluating the role of education on cognitive decline and brain aging in longitudinal cohorts across 33 Western countries. Nature Medicine, 31, 2967–2976. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-025-03828-y

Papadaki, E., Lin, Z., Werner, A., Brandmaier, A. M., Lindenberger, U., Kühn, S., & Wenger, E. (2025). Expertise-dependent brain network organization during music perception. Human Brain Mapping, 46(17), Article e70420. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.70420

Ravndal, A., Fjell, A. M., Vidal-Piñeiro, D., Sørensen, Ø., Falch, E. S., Kropiunig, J., Garrido, P. F., Roe, J. M., Alatorre-Warren, J.-L., Sneve, M. H., Bartrés-Faz, D., Pascual-Leone, A., Brandmaier, A. M., Düzel, S., Kühn, S., Lindenberger, U., Nyberg, L., Watne, L. O., Henson, R. N., the Australian Imaging Biomarkers and Lifestyle flagship study of ageing (AIBL), the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), Walhovd, K. B., & Grydeland, H. (2025). Sex differences in healthy brain aging are unlikely to explain higher Alzheimer's disease prevalence in women. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(42), Article e2510486122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2510486122

Silva Díaz, J. A., Heene, M., & Brandmaier, A. M. (2025). Evaluation of structural equation model forests' performance to identify omitted influential covariates. Structural Equation Modeling, 32(2), 319–331. https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2024.2417866

Vidal-Piñeiro, D., Sørensen, Ø., Strømstad, M., Amlien, I. K., Anderson, M., Baaré, W. F. C., Bartrés-Faz, D., Brandmaier, A. M., Bråthen, A. C., Garrido, P., Ghisletta, P., Grydeland, H., Henson, R. N., Kievit, R. A., Korbmacher, M., Kühn, S., Lindenberger, U., Mowinckel, A. M., Nyberg, L., Roe, J. M., Sneve, M. H., Sole-Padulles, C., Watne, L.-O., Walhovd, K. B., & Fjell, A. M. (2025). Reliability of structural brain change in cognitively healthy adult samples. Imaging Neuroscience, 3, Article imag_a_00547. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00547

Vidal-Piñeiro, D., Sørensen, Ø., Strømstrad, M., Amlien, I. K., Baaré, W., Bartrés-Faz, D., Brandmaier, A. M., Cattaneo, G., Düzel, S., Ghisletta, P., Henson, R. N., Kühn, S., Lindenberger, U., Mowinckel, A. M., Nyberg, L., Pascual-Leone, A., Roe, J. M., Solana-Sánchez, J., Solé-Padullés, C., Watne, L. O., Wolfers, T., the Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging (VETSA), Walhovd, K. B., & Fjell, A. M. (2025). Vulnerability to memory decline in aging revealed by a mega-analysis of structural brain change. Nature Communications, 16, Article 11488. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-66354-y

Brandmaier, A. M., Ernst, M., & Peikert, A. (2024). Assessing rigor and impact of research software for hiring and promotion in psychology: A comment on Gärtner et al. (2022). Meta-Psychology, 8, Article MP.2023.3715. https://doi.org/10.15626/MP.2023.3715

Brandmaier, A. M., Lindenberger, U., & McCormick, E. M. (2024). Optimal two-time point longitudinal models for estimating individual-level change: Asymptotic insights and practical implications. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 70, Article 101450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101450

Buchberger, E. S., Ngo, C. T., Peikert, A., Brandmaier, A. M., & Werkle-Bergner, M. (2024). Estimating statistical power for structural equation models in developmental cognitive science: A tutorial in R. Behavior Research Methods, 56, 6862–6879. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02396-2

Dallacker, M., Appelius, L., Brandmaier, A. M., Morais, A. S., & Hertwig, R. (2024). Opt-out defaults do not increase organ donation rates. Public Health, 236, 436–440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2024.08.009

Köhncke, Y., Kühn, S., Düzel, S., Sander, M. C., Brandmaier, A. M., & Lindenberger, U. (2024). Grey-matter structure in cortical and limbic regions correlates with general cognitive ability in old age. Aging Brain, 5, Article 100103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbas.2023.100103

Parsons, S., Brandmaier, A. M., Lindenberger, U., & Kievit, R. (2024). Longitudinal stability of cortical grey matter measures varies across brain regions, imaging metrics, and testing sites in the ABCD study. Imaging Neuroscience, 2, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00086

Binnewies, J., Nawijn, L., Brandmaier, A. M., Baaré, W. F. C., Boraxbekk, C.-J., Demnitz, N., Drevon, C. A., Fjell, A. M., Lindenberger, U., Skak Madsen, K., Nyberg, L., Topiwala, A., Walhovd, K. B., Ebmeier, K. P., & Penninx, B. W. J. H. (2023). Lifestyle-related risk factors and their cumulative associations with hippocampal and total grey matter volume across the adult lifespan: A pooled analysis in the European Lifebrain consortium. Brain Research Bulletin, 200, Article 110692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresbull.2023.110692

Boker, S. M., von Oertzen, T., Pritikin, J. N., Hunter, M. D., Brick, T. R., Brandmaier, A. M., & Neale, M. C. (2023). Products of variables in structural equation models. Structural Equation Modeling, 30(5), 708–718. https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2022.2141749