Andreas Brandmaier - Publications

Brandmaier, A. M., & Peikert, A. (in press). Automated reproducibility testing in R Markdown. Collabra: Psychology.

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.

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

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

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

Ernst, M. S., Peikert, A., Brandmaier, A. M., & Rosseel, Y. (2023). A note on the connection between trek rules and separable nonlinear least squares in linear structural equation models. Psychometrika, 88(1), 98–116. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-022-09891-5

Fjell, A. M., Sørensen, Ø., Wang, Y., Amlien, I. K., Baaré, W. F. C., Bartrés-Faz, D., Boraxbekk, C.-J., Brandmaier, A. M., Demuth, I., Drevon, C. A., Ebmeier, K. P., Ghisletta, P., Kievit, R., Kühn, S., Madsen, K. S., Nyberg, L., Solé-Padullés, C., Vidal-Piñeiro, D., Wagner, G., Watne, L. O., & Walhovd, K. B. (2023). Is short sleep bad for the brain? Brain structure and cognitive function in short sleepers. The Journal of Neuroscience, 43(28), 5241–5250. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2330-22.2023

Fjell, A. M., Sørensen, Ø., Wang, Y., Amlien, I. K., Baaré, W. F. C., Bartrés-Faz, D., Bertram, L., Boraxbekk, C.-J., Brandmaier, A. M., Demuth, I., Drevon, C. A., Ebmeier, K. P., Ghisletta, P., Kievit, R., Kühn, S., Skak Madsen, K., Mowinckel, A. M., Nyberg, L., Sexton, C. E., Solé-Padullés, C., Vidal-Piñeiro, D., Wagner, G., Watne, L. O., & Walhovd, K. B. (2023). No phenotypic or genotypic evidence for a link between sleep duration and brain atrophy. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 2008–2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01707-5

Friemelt, B., Bloszies, C., Ernst, M. S., Peikert, A., Brandmaier, A. M., & Koch, T. (2023). On the performance of different regularization methods in bifactor-(S-1) models with explanatory variables: Caveats, recommendations, and future directions. Structural Equation Modeling, 30(4), 560–573. https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2022.2140664

Lövdén, M., Pagin, A., Bartrés-Faz, D., Boraxbekk, C.-J., Brandmaier, A. M., Demnitz, N., Drevon, C. A., Ebmeier, K. P., Fjell, A. M., Ghisletta, P., Gorbach, T., Lindenberger, U., Plachti, A., Walhovd, K. B., & Nyberg, L. (2023). No moderating influence of education on the association between changes in hippocampus volume and memory performance in aging. Aging Brain, 4, Article 100082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbas.2023.100082

Nyberg, L., Andersson, M., Lundquist, A., Baaré, W. F. C., Bartrés-Faz, D., Bertram, L., Boraxbekk, C.-J., Brandmaier, A. M., Demnitz, N., Drevon, C. A., Düzel, S., Ebmeier, K. P., Ghisletta, P., Henson, R., Jensen, D. E. A., Kievit, R. A., Knights, E., Kühn, S., Lindenberger, U., Plachti, A., Pudas, S., Roe, J. M., Madsen, K. S., Solé-Padullés, C., Sommerer, Y., Suri, S., Zsoldos, E., Fjell, A. M., & Walhovd, K. B. (2023). Individual differences in brain aging: Heterogeneity in cortico-hippocampal but not caudate atrophy rates. Cerebral Cortex, 33(9), 5075–5081. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac400

Anand, C., Brandmaier, A. M., Lynn, J., Arshad, M., Stanley, J. A., & Raz, N. (2022). Test-retest and repositioning effects of white matter microstructure measurements in selected white matter tracts. Neuroimage: Reports, 2, Article 100096. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynirp.2022.100096